James Hyatt v. People of the State of New York Charles E Corkran’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district · 154 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Hyde v. United States (1912), People of the State of Illinois Ex Rel John McNichols v. James Pease (1907)
3 district · 154 state decisions — followed in 41 states
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 Roberts v. Reilly · Robb v. Connolly · Ex Parte in the Matter of the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Dennison Governor and Executive Authority of the State of Ohio · Reggel · Cook v. Hart
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever the executive authority of' any State or Territory demands any person as a fugitive from Justice, of the executive authority of any State or Territory to which such person has fled, and produces a copy of an indictment found or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any State or Territory, charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magistrate of the State or Territory from whence the person so charged has fled, it shall be the duty of the executive authority of the State or Territory to which such person has fled to cause him to be arrested and secured, and to cause notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear. If no such agent appears within six months from the time of the arrest, the prisoner may be discharged * * * .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If upon a question of fact, made before the governor, Avhich he ought to decide, there Avere evidence pro and con, the courts might not be justified in revieAving the decision of the governor upon such question. In a case like that, where there Avas some evidence sustaining the finding, the courts might regard the decision of the governor as conclusive.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““2. A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.””
2 later decisions 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.