State v. Soulé’s Empirical Analysis
1844
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1952
5 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 State v. Keene
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We regret very much that one occupying his position, both at the bar and in society, should have set so pernicious an example to the younger members of the profession and to his fellow citizens; and we hope that the example we shall make of him will be a warning to them not to do likewise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.