Cook v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2018
20 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 Lovato v. City of Albuquerque · State Ex Rel. Ogden v. Hunt · State Ex Rel. Deschamps v. Kase · State Ex Rel. Harris v. Harris
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[it] delimit[s] an area of inquiry that colorably lies within the permissible scope of grand jury inquiry.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“articulate specific allegations of crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The district judge convening a grand jury shall charge them with their duties and direct them as to any special inquiry into violations of law that he wishes them to make. The grand jury need not make special inquiry into the general existence or occurrence of violations of any particular statute, notwithstanding any other provision of the law. The grand jury is obliged, and the district judge shall charge that they are, to inquire into: A.any public offense against the state committed and triable in the county which is not barred from prosecution by statute of limitations and upon which no valid indictment or information has theretofore been filed; B. the condition of every person imprisoned in the county not lawfully committed by a court and not indicted or informed against; and C. the condition and management of every public jail or prison within the county.”
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.