State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1986
4 federal appellate · 11 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 Milbrath v. State · State v. Meininger · Goffe v. National Surety Co. · State v. Shelby · Potter v. Mt. Vernon Roller Mill Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the rule is that `to make out a case of embezzlement, accused need not appropriate the property to his own use, but is guilty if he fraudulently appropriates it to the use of another.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adams“a sufficient quantity of wheat had to be kept on hand to cover [the farmer's] deposit.”
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.