James v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.2d 18 · 1949
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably State v. Higley (1980), Crump v. Anderson (1965)
19 federal appellate · 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.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant shall not be called upon to plead. If the defendant waives preliminary examination, the magistrate shall forthwith hold him to answer in the court in which the offense is. triable and shall admit the defendant to bail as provided by law and those rules. If the defendant does not waive examination, it shall take place within a reasonable time * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martinez 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.