People v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1946 · most notably Hyde v. United States (1912), Musser v. State (1901)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 3 Wheel. Cr. Cas. 293 - Commonwealth v. Judd · Alderman v. People · State v. Burnham · State v. Crowley · People v. Richards
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is conceded that if the act which the conspirators combine to perform is unlawful, it is not necessary to set out in the information the means intended to be employed in accomplishing it. * * * But if tho end in view is lawful or indifferent and the conspiracy only becomes criminal by reason «of the unlawful means whereby it is to be accomplished, it becomes necessary to show the criminality by setting out the unlawful means.””
2 later decisions 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.