State v. Cantrell’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1948
2 district · 5 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The design of the statute, in prescribing the mode in which grand jurors shall be selected, was to protect the citizen from unfounded prosecution, and to deprive the sheriff, if inclined, of the opportunity of acting corruptly. Any essential departure from its provisions, the law does not wink at, however slight.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the sixteen persons summoned to serve as grand jurors shall not attend on the first day of the circuit court, such court shall order the sheriff, forthwith, to summon a sufficient number of persons qualified to serve as grand jurors to supply the deficiency.””
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.