State v. DeGroat’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 1988 · most notably People v. Malone (1947), State v. Achter (1974)
37 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 People v. Balkwell · Purcell v. Goshorn · Peoples v. Commonwealth · People v. . McGonegal · Howard v. People
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘The courts everywhere have recognized the utter futility of actual proof, and have with practical unanimity held that a prima-facie case is made out by proof of the fact that the woman was m: good health, or in her usual and ordinary condition of health, immediately prior to the commission upon her of the abortion charged. [State v. Sonner, 253 Mo. 440 ; State v. Casto, 231 Mo. 398 ; State v. Dargatz, 244 Mo. 218 ; State v. Longstreth, supra; State v. Wells, supra; Dixon v. State, 46 Neb. 298 ; People v. Balbwell, 143 Cal. 259 ; 1 R. C. L. 78.] ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith
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.