McVay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1971
16 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 Meisenheimer v. State · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Holmes · Vaughan v. State · Skaggs v. State · Stokes v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statutes of this State provide that ‘special adjourned sessions of any court may be held in continuation of the regular term, upon its being so ordered by the court or judge in term time, and entered by the clerk on the record of the court.’ Kirby’s Digest, § 1531. This statute confers authority to adjourn to a day beyond the intervening term of court in another county in the same circuit (citing authorities). When the court reconvened, it did not begin a new term, but that constituted a, continuation of the old. Davies v. State, 39 Ark. 448 . The court stood as originally organized, and the adjournment over to a certain day did not operate as a discharge of the regular juries, grand and petit, nor of a jury impaneled in a particular case. Commonwealth v. Bannon, 97 Mass. 214 . If the court had the power to order an adjournment over to another day, that necessarily carried with it the power to retain the entire organization as constituted at the time of the adjournment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evers v. State
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.