Penton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably State v. Doyle (1968), Ruiz v. State (1989)
3 federal appellate · 63 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 Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Spies v. Illinois · Gaines v. State of Washington · The Anarchists' Case Spies · Arkansas Tax Commission v. Moore
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That all offenses heretofore required to be prosecuted by indictment may be prosecuted either by indictment by a grand jury or information filed by the prosecuting attorney. ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The principle distinction between provisions of § 1 of Amendment 22 to the Constitution of Arkansas, and the provision of California’s Constitution authorizing prosecutions under information, is that as a condition precedent to the validity of prosecutions on information in California, there must have been examination and commitment by a magistrate. Omission of this requirement from the Arkansas Amendment does not deprive the accused of the rights of due process guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Payne v. State“against the peace and dignity of the State of Arkansas”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. State
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.