State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably State v. Brinkley (1945), State v. O'BRIEN (1952)
47 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 State v. Hefflin · State v. Moore · State v. Blackmore and Godsey · State v. Warford · State v. Brown
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who shall be convicted of breaking into and entering the dwelling house of another, in which there shall be at the time some human being, with intent to commit some felony or larceny therein, either: First, by forcibly bursting or breaking the . . . window of such house . . .; or, second by breaking in any other manner, being armed with some dangerous weapon, or with the assistance and aid of one or more confederates, then actually present aiding and assisting; or, third, by unlocking an outer door by means of false keys, or by picking the lock thereof, shall be adjudged guilty of burglary in the first degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Neely“An Indictment for burglary in the first degree under the tenth section must state, not only the breaking and entering into a dwelling house in which at the time there was a human being, with intent to commit some felony or larceny, but that such breaking and entering was effected in one of the modes specified in that section. The manner of the breaking into a dwelling house is one of the ingredients of burglary in the first degree. (Emphasis in the original; citations omitted.) 133 S.W.2d at 406 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hendricks v. State“... it is not necessary that the offense in the foreign state be identical in all its elements with one punishable as a felony in this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grubb
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.