State v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1958
1 federal appellate · 13 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 Teel v. Yellis
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be observed that tbe statute upon which these indictments are founded does not contain the term ‘willfully,’ or any other equivalent term. It makes the offense to consist in the illegal sale itself; and, if a sale is made contrary to the statute and without license, the seller is liable, even though he may be ignorant of the law, and have no intent to violate the statute of the state. . It is not an essential part of the offense that the sale be made willfully and with the intent to break the law; and, inasmuch as the statute does not contain the term, it is, in our opinion, unnecessary to be so alleged in the indictment.””
1 later decision 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.