State v. Heaton’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1965
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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a well-established principle that if there be an exception contained in a clause of the act which creates the offense, the indictment must show negatively that the subject of the indictment does not come within the exception; but when the exception or proviso is in a subsequent clause of the statute, as in this ease, it is a matter of defense for the defendant and need not be negatived in the pleading.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Burton
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.