Fleener v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 1975 · most notably Agar v. State (1911), State v. Parker (1930)
2 federal appellate · 43 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.
Relationships
Relies on Town of Searcy v. Yarnell · State v. Porter · State v. Kent · State v. Ward · Warmoth v. Commonwealth
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]hen the servant comes into possession of the property before the master, and his possession is by reason of his relation as such servant, and he; appropriates it to his own use before it comes into the possession of the master, and while yet in his possession, the fraudulent appropriation thus made is embezzlement, and not 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.