People v. Zackowitz’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Shepard v. United States (1933), Connecticut v. Porter (1997)
26 federal appellate · 93 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 People v. . Molineux · Stokes v. . People of the State of N.Y. · People v. Moran · People v. . Webster · Commonwealth v. Snell
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““With only the rough and ready tests supplied by their experience of life, the jurors were to look into the workings of another’s mind, and discover its capacities and disabilities, its urges and inhibitions,, in moments of intense excitement. Delicate enough and subtle is the inquiry, even in the most favorable conditions, with every warping influence excluded. ’ ’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Inflexibly the law has set its face against the endeavor to fasten guilt upon him by proof of character or experience predisposing to an act of crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the natural and inevitable tendency of the tribunal ... is to give excessive weight to the vicious record ... thus exhibited, and either to allow it to bear too strongly on the present charge, or to take the proof of it as justifying a condemnation irrespective of guilt of the present charge.”
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.