State v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably Reyna v. State (1968), State v. Burns (1970)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Lynumn v. Illinois · United States v. Balint · Shevlin-Carpenter Company v. State of Minnesota · State v. Virdure · State v. Worley
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any complaint, information, or indictment, and in any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement of any provision of this law, it shall not be necessary to negative any exception, excuse, proviso, or exemption, contained in this law, and the burden of proof of any such exception, excuse, proviso or exemption, shall be upon the defendant. (R.S.1939 § 9849)””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kane““The power of eliminating mental intent or consciousness of wrongdoing as an essential element of a statutory offense has been held to be properly exercised with respect to laws prohibiting the sale of narcotics.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hitchcock
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.