State v. Mortensen’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2005
1 federal appellate · 11 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 Sparf v. United States · Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Hillmon · Insurance Company v. Mosley · Commonwealth v. Trefethen · Shular v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever it is material to prove the state of a person’s mind, or what was passing in it, and what were his intentions, there you may prove what he said, because that is the only means by which you can find out what his intentions were.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Prince
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.