Ex parte McCrary’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 31 Ala. App. 91 - Lee v. State (1943), Noles v. State (1854)
28 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 Ex parte Croom
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The language of the constitution is: ‘All persons shall, before conviction, be bailable by sufficient securities, except for capital offences where the proof is evident or the presumption great.’ The obvious intention of the framers of the constitution, in denying to the legislature the right to pass any laws impairing the right of bail, except in capital cases, was, as to these offences, to leave them free to pass such laws as they please. This clause of the bill of rights in the constitution was, many years since, made part of the statute law of the State, and was incorporated in the Penal Code. * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Bynum“"... to the juries the power of saying, in cases of murder in the first degree, whether the accused shall suffer death, or go to the penitentiary for life.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Berry
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.