State v. Fisher’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1974
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the felonious making of the false instrument as true in fact which constitutes the crime of forgery; consequently it was not necessary for the indictment to aver that the instrument would have conveyed the land if genuine. ‘The question is whether, upon its face, it will have the effect to defraud those who may act upon it as genuine, or the person whose name is forged.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Leonard
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.