Messenger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2020
4 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 Taylor v. State of Georgia · Whittle v. Jones · Joel v. Publix-Lucas Theatres Inc. · Sanders v. McHan · Taylor 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The inhibition of the Constitution applies to any and all imprisonment for debt, irrespective of the period of its duration or the means whereby it is accomplished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eickhoff v. Eickhoff
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.