Proper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Bracey v. United States (1944), Commonwealth v. King (1982)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 People v. . Sharp · Thayer v. Thayer · Farris v. People · People v. . O'Sullivan · Commonwealth v. Choate
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon a prosecution for adultery, evidence of previous acts of improper familiarity, amounting to adultery, between the same persons, was held competent either in corroboration of witnesses for the prosecution ...” (Emphasis supplied.) P. 630.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We do not suppose that evidence that the defendant had committed adultery or been guilty of acts of improper familiarity with the girl Emma at another time and • place would be competent evidence on the trial of the present issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McAllister v. State“A greater latitude of proof as to other like occurrences is allowed in cases of sexual crimes.”
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.