Tilton v. . Beecher’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently May 1971 · most notably Mathis v. State (1903), People v. . Stedeker (1903)
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 102 state decisions — followed in 20 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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is further urged that the defendant in such a case needs no specification of particulars, because he knows better than any other, but one, the details about which he seeks information. This is' petitio principii. It assumes that the defendant has committed the acts with which he is charged, while the very question to be tried is whether or not he has committed them.””
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.