State v. Perley’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2003 · most notably Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000), Ewing v. California (2003)
22 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 State v. . Burke · Commonwealth v. Lawless · State v. McCune · Cook v. Mutual Insurance · State v. Howerton
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is no provision of this statute which makes the amount of property taken an essential element of the offense; and there is no statute in this State which creates degrees in robbery, or in any way makes the punishment of the offense dependent upon the value of the property taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he indictment must contain an allegation of every fact which is legally essential to the punishment to be inflicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the value is not essential to the punishment it need not be distinctly alleged or proved.”
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.