Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably State v. Little (1960), State v. Daymus (1961)
51 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 Hickory v. United States · Hardenbergh v. Ray · Dorsey v. State · Lawrence v. State · Hoag v. Howard
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he very fact that the state has specified an instrument may or shall be filed, registered, or recorded is evidence that in its public policy it deems it important enough for the general good of its citizens that a place and a manner be provided where the existence of the instrument may be established[.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is sufficient if the similarity be such that a reasonable man would believe therefrom that the person who had done one of the acts proven had done the other. In other words, there must be a thread of similarity running through the various incidents which would tend to show the same hand engaged in all.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vigil v. State“" * * * The certificate of the notary was presumptive, and, so long as it stood unimpeached, conclusive, evidence they had so sworn."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. People
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.