State v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably People v. Wright (1914), Solander v. People (1873)
39 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The declarations of Olive Ashe as to the purpose of the journey in going to the respondent’s were properly admitted as part of the res gestee. The mere act of going was equivocal; it might have been for professional advice and assistance. The declarations were of the same force as the act of going and were admissible as part of the act.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Fritch · State v. Power
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.