The Anarchists' Case Spies’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 207 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably Maxwell v. Dow (1900), Bitterman v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad (1907)
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 148 state decisions — followed in 43 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 Reynolds v. States · Davidson v. New Orleans · Hayes v. State of Missouri · Hopt v. People · John Barron John Craig Luke Tiernan John Craig v. Mayor City Council of Baltimore
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 207 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Reynolds v. U. S., 98 U. S. 145 , we said ‘that upon the trial of the issue of fact raised by’ a challenge to a juroi" in a criminal case, on the ground that he had formed and expressed an opinion as to the issues to be tried, ‘the court will practically be called upon to determine whether the nature and strength of the opinion formed are such as in law necessarily to raise the presumption of partiality. The question thus presented is one of mixed law and fact, and to be tried, as far as the facts are concerned, like any other issue of that character, upon the evidence. The findings of the trial court upon that issue ought not to be set aside by a reviewing court, unless the error is manifest. * * * It must be made clearly to appear that upon the evidence the court ought to have found the juror had formed such an opinion that he could not, in law, be deemed impartial. The case must be one in which it is manifest the law left nothing to the “conscience or discretion” of the court.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Can you fairly and impartially try the case and render an impartial verdict upon the evidence as it may be presented here and the instructions of the court?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Garner
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.