In re Packer’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2017
17 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 Mills v. Commonwealth · Parker v. People · Mims v. State · Ex parte Farnham
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * ¿¡jg-frict court having jurisdiction of the defendant, and jurisdiction of the offenses charged, when the application for the consolidation was presented, it had jurisdiction to determine that application. If it erred in its conclusion, such error in no way affected its jurisdiction. In other words, it had power to make an erroneous order as well as a correct one.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The conclusion that one term of imprisonment may be made to commence when another terminates is not only supported by reason, but we think by the decided weight of authority * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gonzales v. People
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.