State v. Ager’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Wolstein v. Docteroff (1997), State v. Linehan (2002)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 New York v. Ferber · State v. Hoffman · 106 Wash. 2d 176 - State v. Hughes · State v. McFadden · 16 Cal. 3d 133 - People v. Stewart
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) "Theft" means: (a) To wrongfully obtain or exert unauthorized control over the property or services of another or the value thereof, with intent to deprive him or her of such property or services.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Linehan · State v. Perez“(7) “Wrongfully obtains” or “exerts unauthorized control” means: (a) To take the property or services of another; (b) Having any property or services in one’s possession, custody or control as bailee, factor, lessee, pledgee, renter, servant, attorney, agent, employee, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, or officer of any person, estate, association, or corporation, or as a public officer, or person authorized by agreement or competent authority to take or hold such possession, custody, or control, to secrete, withhold, or appropriate the same to his or her own use or to the use of any person other than the true owner or person entitled thereto; or (c) Having any property or services in one’s possession, custody, or control as partner, to secrete, withhold, or appropriate the same to his or her use or to the use of any person other than the true owner or person entitled thereto, where the use is unauthorized by the partnership agreement!.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Linehan“This defense negates the element of intent to steal by providing that a defendant cannot be guilty of theft if the defendant takes property from another `under the good faith belief that he is the owner, or entitled to the possession, of the property.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chase
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.