Middleton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably 293 So. 2d 44 - Lynch v. State (1974), 298 So. 2d 376 - State v. Beamon (1974)
37 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 Keggin v. County of Hillsborough · Stewart v. DeLand-Lake Helen Special Road & Bridge District · McDonald v. State · Mills v. State · State ex rel. Gonzalez v. Palmes
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any State, county or municipal officer who shall : “1. Convert to his. own use, or who shall “2. Secrete with .the intent to convert to his own use, or who shall “3. Withhold with the intent to convert to his own use, “(a) Any money, property or effects belonging to or in the possession of the State, county, city or town whose duty requires him to receive said public money, property or effects; or “(b) Any money, property or effects of another, the duty of which officer requires him to receive said money, property or effects, shall in every such act be deemed guilty of an embezzlement of the money, property or effects so converted, secreted or withheld, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison not exceeding twenty years, and by a fine equal to the value of the money, property or effects so converted, secreted or withheld. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Branch v. State
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.