State v. . Ivey’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1961
2 federal appellate · 3 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The action of the grand jury, upon bills of indictment., is very important to individuals and the public. On the one hand, the safety, good order, and well-being of society are to lie affected for good or evil by it; and, on the other, a person should not be carelessly accused of crime. This should be done upon solemn accusation, and for reasonably apparent cause; it may be of great consequence to the accused, whether the accusation be well or ill founded. Such bills are not to be treated lightly, but seriously; the action of the grand jury must be based, not merely upon conjecture, suspicion, mere information, what they or a member or members of their body may know, but upon the testimony of witnesses duly sworn, or other evidence that comes before them duly autheni icated. If a grand juror has knowledge of facts material, he should be sworn as a witness, and examined as such. State v. Gain [8 N. 0.] 1 Hawks. 352 .””
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.