In re Ferrier’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Gault (1967), People Ex Rel. Wallace v. Labrenz (1952)
47 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Milwaukee Industrial School v. Supervisors of Milwaukee County · People ex rel. O'Connell v. Turner · Roth v. House of Refuge · Ross v. Irving · Exparte Crouse
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The constitutional provision that `the right of trial by jury, as heretofore enjoyed, shall remain inviolate' does not apply. This is not a proceeding according to the course of the common law in which the right of a trial by jury is guaranteed, but the proceeding is a statutory one, and the statute, too, enacted since the adoption of the Constitution. There was not, at the time of such adoption, the enjoyment of a jury trial in such a case. In reference to this subject, generally, Judge Cooley, in his work on Constitutional Limitations, page 319, remarks: `But in those cases which formerly were not triable by jury, if the Legislature provide for such a trial now, they may doubtless create for the purpose a statutory tribunal composed of any number of persons, and no question of constitutional power or right could arise.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Civil liberty, which is that of a member of society, is no other than natural liberty so far restrained by human laws (and no farther) as is necessary and expedient for the. general advantage of the public.” 1 Blackstone, Commentaries, 125.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weber v. Doust
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.