People v. Samuel’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably State v. Melemai (1982), Marston v. Oliver (1973)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Goldberg v. Kelly · Marchetti v. United States · Grosso v. United States · Ullmann v. United States · V The Board of Higher Education of the City of New York
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]otor vehicle accidents account for almost as many deaths in this country as all other categories of accidents combined * * *.”
3 later decisions 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.