State v. Moren’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1940
7 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They were not bought in order to get their face value in goods. The vicious element still inheres in the transaction. . . The sale of a ticket gave the purchaser the chance to obtain something more than he paid for, and that became an extra inducement for the purchase. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Swiggett““ The statute is intended to reach all devices which are in the nature of lotteries, in whatever form presented, and the courts will tolerate no evasions for the continuance of the mischief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. McPhee
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.