State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1923
9 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 State v. Evers · State v. Ross · State v. Helm · State v. Howerton · State v. Reakey
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be observed that it contains every material allegation required by that section; but instead of the words ‘pass,’ ‘utter’ and ‘publish’ substitutes the words ‘ sell, ’ ‘ exchange’ and ‘ deliver. ’ Do these words, in connection with the acts charged, sufficiently describe the offense, or is the pleader confined to- the words in the section? It is generally, not, however, invariably, sufficient to describe the offense in the words of the statute; but it does not follow that other words may not be substituted. Selling, exchanging or delivering a bank bill or a piece of money is in common parlance passing the bill or money. The plain or ordinary •and usual sense of the word ‘pass,’ as applied to coin or •bank notes, is to deliver in exchange for something else, and is equally expressed by the words ‘ sell,’ ‘exchange’ or ‘deliver.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harroun
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.