Ex parte Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1987
14 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 · Ex parte McCrary · Bishop v. State · Browning v. State · People v. Van Horne
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the offense is not shown by evident proof or great presumption to be one for the commission of which the law inflicts capital punishment, bail is not a matter of mere discretion with the court, but of right to the prisoner.” (Ex parte Bryant 34 Ala. 270 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Thomas · In Re Thomas““It is a safe rule, where malicious homicide is charged, to refuse bail in all cases where a judge would sustain a capital conviction if pronounced by a jury on such evidence of guilt as was exhibited by him on the hearing of the application to admit to bail. (Com. v. Keeper of Prison, 2 Ashm. [Pa.] 227.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Thomas
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.