State v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Libercent v. Aldrich (1987), Sabre v. Rutland Railroad (1913)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 Wisconsin Central Railroad v. United States · McElrath v. United States · Decatur v. Paulding · Mississippi v. Johnson · Sanborn v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The primary purpose of the Auditor's office is to safeguard the funds of the State,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grout v. Gates
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.