State v. Humphrey’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2018
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.
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.
“fully established ... in England, and ... in every State in the Union except Tennessee [and was] so laid down by every elementary book on criminal law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the absence of all free and voluntary consent upon the part of the owner to the party taking his goods and appropriating them to his own use.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“without the consent and against the will of the owner”
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.