8 Smith & H. 177 - Girdley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1983
17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person who fraudulently passes or transfers, or offers to pass or transfer, any forged paper, knowing it to be forged, with intent to defraud another, is guilty of a felony.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘ ‘ The forging of a particular cheek is a single criminal act, regardless of how many forged signatures appear thereupon, or how many persons the forged instrument might defraud. * * * So the offer to pass such an instrument is a single criminal act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wofford 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.