People v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1950 · most notably 72 Cal. App. 102 - People v. Edwards (1925), Crum v. State (1897)
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If rogues conspire to get away a man’s money by such tricks as those which are plead here, it is not going beyond the settled rules of law to hold that the fraud will supply the place of trespass in the taking-, and so make the conversion felonious.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.