Pelts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1832
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1915
9 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 Commonwealth v. Boyer
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Chitty, speaking of indictments upon statutes” (1 Chitt. C. L. 232), “remarks, ‘and not even the fullest description of the offence, were it even in the terms of a legal definition, would be sufficient without keeping close to the expressions of the statute/ In page 237, he further remarks, that ‘ it is in every case advisable to attend, with the greatest nicety, to the words contained in the act, for no others can be so proper to describe the crime; the exceptions if any áre doubtful; and the broad principle which renders a strict adherence essential, is supported by too strong a number of decisions to be shaken/ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schmidt v. State
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.