Gaines v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That no person shall, for any indictable offense, be proceeded against criminally, by information, except in cases arising in the militia and volunteer forces when in actual service, or when assembled under arms as a military organization, or, by leave of the court, for misfeasance, misdemeanor, extortion, and oppression in office, otherwise than is provided in the Constitution: Provided, that in cases of misdemeanor, the Legislature may by law dispense with a grand jury and authorize such prosecutions and proceedings before justices of the peace or such other inferior courts as may be by lato established.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Collins v. State · Ex Parte Flowers

2. ““By section 8 of the same instrument [the Constitution] the original jurisdiction of [the circuit] court in criminal eases is limited to cases in which indictments are preferred.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Collins v. State