State v. Underwood’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1972
9 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.
““It was well settled in Massachusetts, before our separation from that Commonwealth, that a person stealing goods in one State, and carrying them into another, may be convicted of the larceny in the latter.” (p. 187)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Younie v. State““ * * * whether or not stealing goods in a British Province, and bringing them, by the thief, into this State, and having them in his possession here, is larceny in this State.” (p. 182)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Younie v. State““If the question were now raised for the first time, I should certainly dissent from the doctrine.” (p. 187)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Younie v. State
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.