People v. Pfanschmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States Vajtauer v. Commissioner of Immigration at Port of New York (1927), 56 Ill. 2d 560 - People v. Queen (1974)
59 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Bram v. United States · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Brown v. Walker · Commonwealth v. Trefethen · 10 E.H. Smith 253 - People v. . Fitzgerald
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that when the proper foundation has been laid, the result of the trailing of a human being by a blood-hound from the place of the crime may be shown in evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.