Loker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Urciolo v. State (1974), Department of Natural Resources v. France (1976)
30 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 Schowgurow v. State · State v. Madison · Nolan v. State · 2 Md. App. 1 - Loker v. State · State v. Archer
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Nolan our predecessors adopted certain of the English cases maintaining the various distinctions between embezzlement and larceny. In none of them is there any authority for extending the established doctrine of constructive possession to any alleged wrongdoer not in actual possession and the case of Reg. v. Wright, Dears & B. Crown Cas. 431, 441, 442, cited with approval therein shows that the accused must have actual possession before he can successfully maintain that his crime was embezzlement rather than larceny.” (Emphasis supplied.) 250 Md. at 687 , 245 A. 2d at 820 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Urciolo v. State
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.