People v. Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2006 · most notably Trono v. United States (1905), People v. . Marwig (1919)
22 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The verdict of the jury amounts in law to an acquittal of any more serious charge than manslaughter and, therefore, is a denial of the charge that her death was the result of any other felony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Gessinger“was either accidental, or caused by some act in which [the defendant] had no part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Robinson“`engaged in an act against public morals, and unlawful.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Robinson
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.