White v. Wagar’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 1974
2 district · 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWhite v. Wagar
Relationships
Relies on Gundling v. City of Chicago · Langdon v. People · People ex rel. Loomis v. Wilkinson · Shirk v. People · Cecil v. Green
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is another fatal defect in the proceeding. The search warrant issued by the justice directed the officer to diligently search for the goods and chattels, and, if the same or any part thereof be found, to bring the same before the justice of the peace; but the warrant nowhere contains a direction that he shall also bring with him the person in whose possession the goods are found... ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The warrant must also command that the goods or other articles to be searched for, if found, together with the party in whose custody they are found, be brought before the magistrate, to the end that, upon further examination into the facts, the goods, and the party in whose custody they were, may be disposed of according to law."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“bring such stolen property or other things when found and the person in whose possession they are found to the judge or justice of the peace who issued the warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.