State v. Feilen’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson (1942), Buck v. Bell (1927)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 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 Weems v. United States · Kemmler · O'Neil v. State of Vermont · United States v. Pridgeon · Wilkerson v. Utah
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]he legislature is clothed with power well nigh unlimited to define crimes and fix their punishments.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Whitfield
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.