State v. Houston’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1980
2 federal appellate · 18 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 United States v. Thomas · United States v. Prescott · Alabama Great Soiitliern Railroad v. Hawk · Boyden v. United States · United States v. Morgan
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“officer is exonerated only when he has observed the highest care, vigilance and diligence to prevent loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for the faithful performance of his duties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.