State v. Boone’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably State v. Sherry (1983), 94 Ill. 2d 41 - People Ex Rel. Daley v. Moran (1983)
40 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 Argersinger v. Hamlin · Reed v. Reed · Coleman v. Alabama · Ward v. Village of Monroeville · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [A] preliminary examination is not a trial of a defendant’s guilt; it is rather an inquiry whether the defendant should be held for trial. Its principal purpose is a determination of whether a crime has been committed and whether there is a probability that the defendant committed the crime. Its main object is to apprise the accused of the nature of the crime or crimes charged against him, and to apprise him partially, at least, of the sort of evidence he will have to combat when he is subjected to formal prosecution in the district court. . . .” (Emphasis added.) (p. 166.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ramsey · State v. Holloway“[t]he purpose of a preliminary examination is to afford the person arrested, as the result of a complaint, an opportunity to challenge the existence of probable cause for further detaining him or her or requiring bail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re DER
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.