McCool v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Short v. State (1954), O'Brien v. State (1890)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 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 Thompson v. State · Willard v. State · Struckman v. State
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The costs are but an incident of the fine assessed, resulting from the same act; and, although they are due to the officers of the court and witnesses for services rendered in the course of the prosecution, they are adjudged against the defendant because of his criminal act, and may be fairly regarded as a part of the punishment. The fine, when assessed, becomes a fixed liability to pay the state a definite amount of money. The costs are taxed, and are due to the officers and witnesses; and we are at a loss to perceive upon what principle the latter is a debt, within the meaning of the section of the constitution referred to, while the former is not. The fact that the one is payable to the state and the other to individuals, we think furnishes no ground for such a distinction. In our opinion, neither of them is a debt, within the meaning of the constitutional provision referred to, and the judgment of the court below was therefore correct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Sanborn
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.