Crowley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
194 U.S. 461 · 1904
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 20 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1999 · most notably Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n (1943), Beck v. Washington (1962)
60 federal appellate · 20 district · 15 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 Commonwealth v. Smith · State v. Brooks · State v. Williams · State v. Symonds
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [T]he disqualification of a grand juror is prescribed by statute, and cannot be regarded as a mere defect or imperfection in form; it is a matter of substance, which cannot be disregarded without prejudice to an accused.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No indictment found and presented by a grand jury in any district or circuit or other court of the United States shall be deemed insufficient, nor shall the trial, judgment, or other proceedings thereon be affected by reason of any defect or imperfection in matter of form only, which shall not tend to the prejudice of the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * the positive command of the act of Congress relating to the district court of the United States for Porto Rico, that the court below ‘shall proceed in the same manner as a circuit court’ of the United States, precluded the prosecution of the accused in the latter court except by presentment or indictment.””
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.