In re Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1971 · most notably Application of United Electrical, Radio & M. Workers (1953), O'Regan v. Schermerhorn (1946)
29 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 In Re Report of Grand Jury · Parsons v. Age-Herald Pub. Co. · People v. McCabe · In re Osborne · Bennett v. Kalamazoo Circuit Judge
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Grand juries sometimes make a sort of general presentment of evils or evil things to call attention to them, yet not as instructions for any specific indictment. It has been held that a grand jury has no power to file with the court a report of this nature, charging no crime, but reflecting on the conduct of specified individuals. And a court may expunge such a report from the records where it appears to have been inadvisedly made, or is merely a guise to accuse a public official of laxity in the enforcement of certain laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It cannot be that it was ever contemplated that this body, created for the protection of the citizen, was to have the power to set up its own standards of public or private morals, and to arraign citizens at the bar of public opinion, without responsibility for its abuse of that power, and without giving to the citizen the right to a trial upon the accusations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“into the willful and corrupt misconduct in office, of public officers of every description, in 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.