Letwick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2000
24 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 Munsey v. Clough · Kurtz v. State · State Ex Rel. Shapiro v. Wall · Keeton Ex Rel. Tomassone v. Gaiser · Stuart v. Johnson, Sheriff
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Governor of Arkansas, by his act in honoring the requisition, found that appellee was a fugitive from justice. In this state of the case the rule seems to be that before [the prisoner] would be entitled to a discharge by court order, the evidence would have to be practically conclusive in his favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindley v. Crider“are primarily for the Governor of the asylum state and where the requisition shows the necessary facts to entitle the demanding state to the return of the alleged fugitive, the two questions stated are the only ones to be considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindley v. Crider““There is no question of former jeopardy in this case. Indeed the question is whether appellant shall be returned for a trial to the state where the offense is alleged to have been committed.””
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.