State v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably State v. Warner (1990), 163 W. Va. 40 - State v. Burton (1979)
40 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. Poindexter · Fox v. People · State v. Hoke · State v. . Dick · State v. Tong
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No subsequent ratification by the party sought to be injured could in any way mitigate the guilt of the accused. ‘So far as the right of the state to pursue and punish the forger as a criminal is concerned, it is certain that a subsequent ratification by the individual sought to be charged, will be unavailing to defeat it. Any undertaking to suppress the crime would, as has been seen, be contrary to public policy and void.' 1 Mechem, Agency, (2nd ed.) § 360.””
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.