In re Danton’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2000
15 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 People v. Cokahnour · Brown v. State · In re Stilts
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Under the statute all persons confined in the penitentiary are required to perform labor. The punishment inflicted there is not classified as hard and easy labor, but all are required to labor under the direction of the warden. That officer is to prescribe the work that the prisoners shall do, proportionate to the health and capacity of each of them. (Gen. Stat. 1915, § 9977.) In some of the penalties prescribed for crimes the legislature has added to imprisonment the old phrase ‘at hard labor,’ and in some it is omitted, but it is plain that it was not intended that the expression should add anything to the punishment. Under our system all prisoners alike are required to labor while confined in the penitentiary according to their strength and capacity, and so proportioned, it may be said to be hard labor for each prisoner. As used in the statute relating to attempts to commit a crime, the words ‘hard labor’ mean no more than compulsory labor. (Brown v. The State, 74 Ala. 478 .) The punishment to be administered, so far as labor of prisoners in the penitentiary is concerned, is the same whether the words are included or omitted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henderson v. State““It may be said that the same measure of proof is not necessary in a preliminary examination in a trial. An examination is in no sense a trial, in which the guilt or innocence of a person is adjudged, and it is not necessary that the evidence upon which the accused is committed be sufficient to support a conviction. It is necessary that there be proof sufficient to show that a crime has been committed and that there is probable cause to believe the accused is guilty of the crime.” (p. 453.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Turner
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.