Ex Parte Cain’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1992
6 federal appellate · 12 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Beer Company v. Massachusetts · Bartemeyer v. Iowa · People ex rel. Le Roy v. Hurlbut · The People v. . Simeon Draper
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by this chapter, or some existing provision of the law, every offense declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both such fine and imprisonment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carr v. State““* * * The word ‘imprisonment’ means imprisonment in the county jail or local prison unless expressed to be in the penitentiary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Masteller
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.