People v. Ernst’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1983
12 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 Trustees of the Freeholders & Commonalty of Brookhaven v. Smith · Ketelsen v. Stilz · Fox v. People · Anson v. People · Kerner v. McDonald
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To constitute the crime of forgery of an instrument it is necessary for the prosecution to prove the forgery was committed with the intent to defraud some person named. (Fox v. People, 95 Ill. 71 .) ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Waitches
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.