Schneider v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1976
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 People v. Kilvington · Meister v. People · Filer v. Smith · Burk v. Howley · Sneed v. People
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The prosecuting attorney is a constitutional officer. The Constitution, however, leaves the duties and powers of the office to be prescribed by the legislature. Constitution of 1908, art. 8, § 3. So far as here germane, these powers and duties have been defined as follows: “ c prosecuting attorneys shall, in their respective counties, appear for the State or county, and prosecute or defend in all the courts of the county, all prosecutions, suits, applications and motions, whether civil or criminal, in which the State or county may be a party, or interested.” Section 1152, 1 How. Stat. (2d Ed.); 1 Comp. Laws 1915, §2405.’ " ‘Nothing in this provision can by any construction be made to comprehend the acts involved in this controversy. The investigation of alleged crimes by the prosecuting attorney, through private individuals, the acceptance of their reports as basic information upon which is issued a peremptory order to the police to arrest, without warrant, the suspected criminals, finds no statutory sanction in the prescribed powers and duties of a prosecuting attorney.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.