Veatch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1965 · most notably Trono v. United States (1905), Sanders v. State (1882)
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Veatch 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the trial, the defendant offered in evidence the record of the former conviction in the cause, ‘as proof of his former acquittal of murder in the first and second degrees, and for no other purpose,’ but the evidence was excluded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. People
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.