Atterberry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1997
20 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 Hayden v. State · Lewis v. People · Powell v. State · Ruble v. State
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They [the goods] were legally in the possession of the owner, even if for a time left in the custody of the salesman, and an appropriation of them by the latter was a trespass on the possession of the former, within the meaning of the law defining larceny.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bridges 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.