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← 44 UTAH 39 - State v. Bess

State v. Bess’s Empirical Analysis

1913

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
July 2016
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Waller · State v. Thornton · Poole v. People · Burton v. Commonwealth · State v. Witham

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “spent or wasted any part of the money earned by him in dissipation or riotous living,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “willfully or otherwise. remained. idle when he could have obtained employment”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “not supplied with the common necessaries of life.”
    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.