People v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2018
1 district · 15 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 Perrott v. Shearer · Cawker v. Meyer · Brooks v. Cook · McDade v. People · American Transportation Co. v. Moore
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the language used has been subject to judicial interpretation, the legislature is presumed to have used particular words in the sense in which they have been interpreted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Public’ [means] of or pertaining to the people; relating to * * * or affecting, a nation, state, or community at large.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.