Brockelhurst v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Bennett and Holiman v. State (1940), Lee v. State (1958)
45 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 Penton v. State · Martin v. State
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Another contention is made that this amendment was not adopted in compliance with § 22 of art. 19, providing the method for amending the Constitution. The closing sentence in this section and article provides: “They (amendments) shall be Rso submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately.” This objection seems to be that the Legislature was without power to submit two questions in one amendment. In the first section of this amendment, it is provided that prosecuting attorneys may file [an] information or indictments may be had by grand juries, to charge one with crime. It also provides in § 2 for the directing of the General Assembly to determine by law the amount, method and payment of salaries of prosecuting attorneys. We perceive no objection to this manner or method of amending the Constitution, as they both relate to the prosecuting attorney. We are, therefore, of the opinion that appellant is wrong in this contention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Forrester v. Martin““It is also argued that appellant was entitled to a bill of particulars in accordance with § 22 of said act 3. Said section amends § 3028 of Crawford & Moses’ Digest by changing and maldng unnecessary certain contents of indictments and concludes by providing that: ‘ The state, upon request of the defendant, shall file a bill of particulars, setting out the act or acts upon which it relies for conviction.’ It will be seen from the information filed, above quoted, that it set out in detail ‘the act or acts’ upon which the state relied for a conviction, and contained all the requirements of the former statute to make a good indictment had it been returned by a grand jury. So, appellant had a bill of particulars in the information on which he was tried, and it would have been a useless thing to require another. The court, therefore, properly denied this request.””
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.