State v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2006
2 federal appellate · 18 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. Murray · State v. Davis · State v. Wilson · State v. Fraker · State v. Pickett
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the purpose of this statute was to provide for a class of false representations not included in some other section dealing with the subject of the' ordinary false representations. It was intended' to reach a class of offenders known as ‘confidence men,’ who ‘ob.táin the' monéy of' thei'r victims' by means of, or by the use of, some trick or representation designed 'to deceive. The very essence of the crime denounced by section 2213 [V.A.M.S. § 561.450] is that the injured, party must have relied upon ‘some', false or deceitful pretense or device and parted with his property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lazar v. State
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.