State v. Weleck’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 156 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably United States v. Jannotti (1982), United States v. Kenny (1972)
9 federal appellate · 156 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 Driscoll v. Burlington-Bristol Bridge Co. · State v. Ellenstein · State v. Bunk · Central Railroad v. Department of Public Utilities · State v. Bolitho
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“except on 'the clearest and plainest ground' and an indictment should stand 'unless it is palpably defective.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[J]udicial power to dismiss an indictment is not to be exercised except on the clearest and plainest grounds and ... an indictment should stand unless manifestly deficient or palpably defective.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any act or omission in breach of a duty of public concern, by one who has accepted public office.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.