State v. Mayberry’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1978 · most notably Callanan v. United States (1961), United States v. Hunter (1973)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the act to be accomplished is itself criminal or unlawful, it is not necessary to set out in the indictment the means by which it is to be accomplished, but, when the act is not in itself criminal or unlawful, the unlawful means by which it is to be accomplished must be distinctly set out.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.