State v. Polk’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
April 1973
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Bock · State v. Keaton · State v. Billington · State v. Durnam · State v. Hayden Miller Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the trial of a person charged with uttering, publishing and putting off as true a false or forged instrument, and for the purpose of bringing home to the defendant a knowledge of the false and forged character of the instrument there involved, and to fix upon him a criminal intent, other instruments found in his possession or passed by him about the same time may be introduced in evidence upon proof that they are also false, forged and fraudulent.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clark““The court is not required to charge in the exact language requested if the instructions as given correctly set forth the applicable law.””
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.