Pratt v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1963
10 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. Mix · Evertson v. Sutton · Rogers v. Mulliner · People v. Fuller
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ I have no doubt the magistrate in this case acted from an honest .belief that he was authorized to make the indorsement on the back of the warrant; but, as to that, it was an excess of jurisdiction and wholly illegal, and therefore not a question of good faith, but of authority. The law watches personal liberty with vigilance and jealousy, and whoever imprisons another in this country must do it for lawful cause and in a legal manner.””
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.