State v. Prince’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Swafford v. State (1991), State v. Hines (1967)
74 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.
Relationships
Relies on Connally v. General Construction Co. · Thornhill v. Alabama · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · Noble State Bank v. Haskell · Tyson & Brother v. Banton
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * (a) That the property belonged to some one other than the accused. (b) That the accused occupied a designated fiduciary relationship and that the property came into his possession by reason of his employment or office, (c) That there was a fraudulent intent to deprive the owner of his property. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Woods v. Collins · State v. Peke““A penal statute should define the act necessary to constitute an offense with such certainty that a person who violates it must know that his act is criminal when he does it. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Hines““If any person who shall be entrusted with any property of another shall embezzle or fraudently [sic] convert to his own use or shall secrete with intent to embezzle or fraudently [sic] convert to his own use any such property, he shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peke
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.