State v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2017
21 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. Kesterson · State v. Zammar · State v. Martin · State v. Dewitt · State v. Webb
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1.As used in sections 560.156 and 560.161, the following words shall mean: (1) “Property”, everything of value whether real or personal, tangible or intangible, in possession or in action, and shall include but not be limited to the evidence of a debt actually executed but not delivered or issued as a valid instrument and all things defined as property in sections 556.070, 556.080 and 556.090, RSMo; (2) “Steal”, to appropriate by exercising dominion over property in a manner inconsistent with the rights of the owner, either by taking, obtaining, using, transferring, concealing or retaining possession of his property. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally steal the property of another, either without his consent or by means of deceit. 3. If the property stolen within the meaning of subsection 2 is a chattel and the person charged with stealing the same proves by a preponderance of the evidence that no further transfer was made, and that, at the time of the appropriation he intended merely to use the chattel and promptly to return or discontinue his use of it, he has a defense to a prosecution under subsection 2. “Chattel” as used in this section does not include money, securities, negotiable instruments, documents of title, postage or revenue stamps, or other valuable papers. 4. A person who appropriates lost property shall not be deemed to have stolen the same within the meaning of subsection 2, unless such property is found under circumstances which give th”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Commenos“There is no error in excluding offers of proof or evidence tending to impeach a witness on an immaterial or collateral matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Donovan
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.