Prince v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1990
8 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 Holley v. State · Scott v. State · Joyner v. State · Meadows v. State · Thompson v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was not essential to the validity of the indictment that it should have been prepared or signed by the solicitor. It `receives its legal efficacy from the finding and return of the grand jury; and the legal evidence of its verity is the return”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Although the jury had been impaneled and sworn, the indictment had not been read to them and pleaded to by defendant. This was not jeopardy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. State
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.