State v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably 126 Ohio St. 103 - Munic. Court v. State, Ex Rel. (1933), Copeland v. Warden, State Prison (1993)
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Ex parte Lange · Pointer v. United States · People Ex Rel. Forsyth v. . Court of Sessions · Gray v. State · State v. . Cockerham
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 legislative power to set punishment for crime is very broad, and in the exercise of this power the General Assembly may confer on trial Judges, if it sees' fit, the largest discretion as to the sentence to be imposed, as to the beginning and end of the punishment, and whether it should be certain or indeterminate or conditional.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Teal
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.