State Ex Rel. Dowd v. Nangle’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 1998
24 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 State Ex Rel. Griffin v. Smith · State Upon the Information of McKittrick v. Wymore · Hobson v. Youell · Collins v. Robbins · State v. Hatcher
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In what office has the law lodged the duty and responsibility for the commencement of prosecution of a criminal offense and carrying the same forward to its conclusion? Unquestionably such is the responsibility of the circuit attorney or prosecuting attorney. § 54.450 provides that the circuit attorney shall ‘manage and conduct all criminal cases, * * * of which the circuit court * * * shall have jurisdiction * * * > “And in State ex rel. Griffin v. Smith, 363 Mo. 1235, 1239 , 258 S.W.2d 590, 593 , we discussed the dignity and importance of the office of prosecutor and recognized that he, like every other attorney at law, is an officer of the court, nevertheless ‘he is not a mere lackey of the court nor are his conclusions in the discharge of his official duties and responsibilities, in anywise subservient to the views of the judge as to the handling of the State’s cases. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.