State v. Croatt’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2016
12 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 Doss v. State · Jay v. School District No. 1 · People v. . Camp · State v. Autheman · Smith v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person who wilfully: “1. Seizes, confines, inveigles or kidnaps another, with intent to cause him, without authority of law, to be secretly confined or imprisoned within this state, or to be sent out of this state, or in any way held to service or kept or detained against his will; or, «2 * * * “3. * * *, is guilty of kidnapping.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Evans““The term ‘secretly’, as used in this subdivision heretofore quoted, refers to the words ‘confined or imprisoned within this state’. The word does not apply to the subsequent clause, ‘detained against his will’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Evans
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.