People v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 1956 · most notably Stewart v. Brady (1921), The People v. Monroe (1932)
55 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Rast v. Van Deman & Lewis Co. · John McLean v. State of Arkansas · Morris Engel v. Edward R O'Malley F · Mutual Loan Co. v. Martell · Doris Griffith v. State of Connecticut
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To license and regulate the business of making loans in sums of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) or less, secured or unsecured, at a greater rate of interest than twelve (12) per centum per annum, prescribing the rate of interest and charge therefor, and penalties for the violation thereof, and regulating the assignment of wages or salaries, earned or to be earned; when given as security for any such loan.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warner v. People
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.