State v. Dawe’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1970
5 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 People v. Gallagher · People v. Baldwin · State v. Noland · State v. Reinhart · People v. Treadwell
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A man may not say: ‘I have the right to receive money,’ and receive it, and then, when challenged for its receipt or embezzlement, avoid liability by saying, ‘I had no right to receive it.’ He has voluntarily assumed a position, the responsibilities, of which he may not avoid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Bain
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.