State v. Thatcher’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1979
13 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. Stone · People v. Herrick · People v. Cotteral
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the contrary view, the fraud-doer, instead of obtaining from his victim, by false pretences, his hank notes, may defy the law, by resorting to the simple device of getting his check and drawing the money at bank, or he may practice, deception with impunity on the bank by drawing their own circulating notes. Under our humane system of criminal law, judicial ingenuity should not exhaust its resources to reach an interpretation in favor of the wrong. In common and legal understanding, the language of our act is broad enough to comprehend the maker’s own negotiable note or contract of suretyship, by which a piece of paper, before worthless, is stamped with an exchangeable value.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wegener““The main question in the case is, whether our statute is impotent to punish the obtaining by false pretences a contract of suretyship. The note, in this case, and the paper upon which it was written belonged to the defendant; the prosecutor merely signed his name as surety, and returned the note to the defendant. Was this signature a valuable thing within the meaning of the fifty-second section of our act respecting crimes?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wegener““By the cheat, the prosecutor was moved to part with the thing of value, and was thereby placed in a position of jeopardy which he would not otherwise have occupied. The fraudulent intent was fully -manifested in leading the prosecutor to assume a legal liability which subjected him to the contingency of loss.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wegener
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.