Killian v. Craft’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1983
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Giamalva v. Cooper · State v. Ricks · Schimpf v. Thomas · Guillot v. Nunez
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At the time the sheriff’ seized the slot machines they were stored in a warehouse irf ’the Town of Leesville, Vernon Parish, having been in storage for two years or more awaiting the permission of the authorities to ship them to the State of Nevada. They were- not being operated as gambling devices or otherwise in use at the time they were seized and had not been in use or operated for more than two years. They were so manufactured, designed and constructed as to be capable of being used as gambling devices, if in proper state of repair and working order, and are what are commonly called slot machines. * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thoman v. Grevemberg“slot machines are contraband and not property capable of private ownership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.