Newberry v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1978
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Boyd v. United States · Woolfolk v. State · Langdon v. People · Spalding v. Preston · Robison v. Miner
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ther«i is no statute which aiithorizes an officer to take from a prisoner such evidence of guilt as may be found on the person — the bloody knife. * * * It is not only the right, but the duty, of an officer making an arrest to take from the prisoner, not only stolen goods, but any articles which may be of use as proof in the trial of the offense with which the prisoner is charged.””
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.