Luttrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1990
16 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Neither of these positions is tenable. As to the first, we need only say that the charge is made with such degree of certainty as to enable the court to pronounce a proper judgment in case of conviction. Of this there can be no doubt, and that is all that is required. Code (M. V.) 5946. The answer to the second is equally obvious and easy. By our statute”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“within the scope of the definition given. It is a writing authorized, and in fact required, by law, to entitle a justice of the peace to receive payment of his costs in criminal cases. Code, 6450. His bill of costs is his demand for service rendered in legal proceedings before him. If it be genuine, it has undoubted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that (to use their own language) an offender may be guilty of a false making of an instrument, although he sign and execute it in his own name, in case it be false in any material part, and calculated to induce another to give credit to it as genuine and authentic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.