State v. Shirley’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1976
6 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 Riley v. State · State v. Jackson · State v. Daugherty · Thomas v. County of St. Louis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law does not make the justice of the peace a jailer, and, if defendant was arrested by the constable upon a warrant regularly issued on a criminal charge, he remained in the custody of such constable until released under recognizance, discharged by order of the justice, or delivered to the jailer of the county.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mallett
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.