People v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1945
5 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The showing in regard to an absent witness, George Sisson, who testified on a former trial, was not sufficient to justify proving his former statements. It does not appear what efforts were made to secure his presence, or why his deposition was not obtained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Schepps““His (the witness’) position in regard to the facts was not such as to make him a necessary witness for the prosecution to enable defendant to be protected against a false accusation”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Kayne
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.