Hurtado v. People of the State of California’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 516 · 1884
Citation profile
521 federal appellate · 92 district · 995 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,440 later decisions (237 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000), Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
521 federal appellate · 92 district · 995 state decisions — followed in 50 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 Munn v. Illinois · John Den James Murray and John Kayser v. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company John Den James B Murray et al. · Davidson v. New Orleans · Wall
Cited together with Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · Maxwell v. Dow · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Gaines v. State of Washington · Cassell v. Texas
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 2,440 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury....”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“flexibility and capacity for growth and adaptation is the peculiar boast and excellence of the common law.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“' "intended to secure the individual from the arbitrary exercise of the powers of government,”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips · In re Ziebold
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.