World v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1979
14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was further contended that the evidence of the police officer was inadmissible, because it related to the character of the accused, instead of being confined to his reputation. Character and reputation are synonymous terms, and we can see no objection to the evidence introduced, that the character and reputation of the accused was that of a “common thief” during the time the witness knew him. [Id. at 56 (emphasis in original).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In order to justify a conviction of a party of the offense created by the Act there must be proof of either facts, or reputation, sufficient to satisfy the jury that the party is by practice and habit a thief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Royster 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.