State v. Alpert’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably Commonwealth v. Boris (1944), Kasle v. United States (1916)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 Chaffee & Co. v. United States · Clement v. Graham · Huggins v. People · Commonwealth v. Leonard · Commonwealth v. Meserve
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the knowledge that the goods were stolen need not be such as a person acquires by seeing them taken; it is sufficient if the circumstances accompanying the transaction were such as to make the respondent believe them to be stolen. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Guppy““It is not necessary that guilty knowledge be shown by direct evidence. It may be shown by the circumstances, if they were such as to satisfy the receiver’s mind that the goods were stolen... .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Guppy
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.