Skidmore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1978
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Hill v. State · Lewis v. President of the Bank of Kentucky · Dixon v. State · Lamb v. State · State v. Harrison
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In many states the old common-law distinction between principals and accessories before .the fact has been abolished by statute. This seems to be a step in the general direction of reform by simplifying the law and abolishing technicalities; -but the legislature of this state has seen fit to abide by the ancient and technical distinctions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scharman 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.