Penny v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 2001
3 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 Standley v. State · Reynolds v. State · Ramirez v. State · Hughes 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knowingly and intentionally appropriate property, namely: exercise control over property, other than real property, [description of property], without the effective consent of [complainant], the owner of said property who had a greater right to possession of the said property than the defendant, with the intent to deprive the said owner of the said property, namely: to withhold the said property from the said owner permanently, and such appropriation was without effective consent since the consent was induced by deception in that the said property was secured in exchange for a check that was subsequently dishonored by the bank, [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whetstone 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.