State v. Alcorn’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably State Ex Rel. Dishman v. Gary (1962), State Ex Rel. Edwards v. Reyna (1960)
1 district · 33 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute under consideration is one penal in character, and must be construed as though it were one defining a crime and prescribing its punishment. “If the respondent violated his official duty, whether this resulted from wilful act or not, he would be responsible to any person injured thereby, for intent with which his act or refusal to act was accompanied would not be an inquiry; but when it is sought to remove him from office on account of official misconduct animus becomes an important inquiry.” ( 78 Tex. 393 , 14 S. W. 665 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is universally held that the word ‘willful’ when used in a penal statute means with evil intent or without reasonable ground to believe the act lawful.””
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.