Leonard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably Mitchell v. State (1972), Owen v. State (1979)
26 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 Remmer v. United States · United States v. White · Lustig v. United States · Feldman v. United States · Goldbaum v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every ... attorney (who,) having access to control or possession of any money (of his employer) shall, while in such employment, (appropriate it to his own use) ... shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“access in a situation of confidence and trust (coupled) with an unlawful conversion of the goods by the entrusted party will sustain a conviction of embezzlement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“question of whether the bank lawfully had possession of the records,”
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.