Swanson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
January 1968
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State ex rel. Cave v. Tincher · Robison v. Wayne Circuit Judges
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Juvenile Courts are not criminal courts. Their function is not to try criminal charges and punish for criminal offenses. It is only upon the theory that they are not criminal courts that their establishment, and that their methods of procedure, can be sustained as constitutional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abbott v. People
How this case has been treated — in progress
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