Arrowsmith v. Harmoning’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions

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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ First. Petitioners challenged the validity of the statute of Illinois, under and pursuant to which the trial jury was selected and empanelled, on the ground of repugnancy to the Constitution of the United States, and the state court sustained the validity of the statute. “Second. Petitioners asserted and claimed, under the Constitution of the United States, the right, privilege, and immunity of trial by an impartial jury, and the decision of the state court was against the right, privilege, and immunity so asserted and claimed. “Third. The State of Illinois made, and the state court enforced against petitioners, a law (the aforesaid statute) whereby the privileges and immunities of petitioners, as citizens of the United States, were abridged, contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. “ Fourth. Upon their trial for a capital offence, petitioners were compelled by the state court to be witnesses against themselves, contrary to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States which declare that " no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,’ and that ‘ no person shall be deprived of life or liberty without due process of law.’ “ Fifth. That by the action of the state court in said trial petitioners were denied ‘the equal protection of the laws,’ contrary to the guaranty of the said Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Spies v. Illinois

2. ““The rule is well established that a state cannot be deemed guilty of a violation of its constitutional obligation (nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law) simply because!, one of its courts, while acting within its jurisdiction, has made an erroneous decision.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Orfanakis

3. “the question on which our jurisdiction depends was so manifestly decided right, that the case ought not to be held for further argument.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Spies v. Illinois