Ex parte Stearnes’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1982
11 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 Gay v. State · State v. Kyle
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Applying, as we must, the principle of those cases to the case at bar the result must be the enlargement of the petitioner. A term of the court was held, and no action whatever was. taken in his case.... The circuit court not having taken hold of the prosecution and kept it alive by appropriate action, it was dead”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[I]t is a general proposition that a discontinuance results in all cases from the passing of a term without any action whatever being taken — a general order of continuance or something . .. . ””
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.