State v. Bleekley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Now give the effect to the statute concerning jurors, or, as it is called, the ‘Uniform Jury Law,’ passed in 1851, for the government of some twenty-five counties in this state, where there are upwards of one hundred, which the defendant’s counsel contends for in this case, and we must virtually deprive the courts from ever holding a special term for criminal business, in the counties under this ‘Uniform Jury Law;’ for no grand jury can be summoned at such terms — no indictment found; and the prisoner must still remain in jail, though it is more than two, or even more than four months, to the next regular term. “The legislature never designed this; they never anticipated such an event; they supposed all objection to juries, either grand or petit, must, under the laws of the state, be made at the time when about to be sworn, and for the causes in the statute mentioned. The court, then, very properly, sustained the demurrer to the plea in abatement filed herein.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State ex rel. Woods v. Connett