United States v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
39 F. 355 · 1889
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1980
3 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 v. Fasset · State v. Hamlin · United States v. Farrington · Stewart v. State · Commonwealth v. Smith
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is not intended to suggest that whenever incompetent testimony is received by a grand jury its reception is such error or irregularity as to vitiate their finding nor to hold that tile evidence upon which an indictment is found shall he such as the court would regard as making out a prima facie case against the accused. It is not the province of the court to sit in review of the investigations of a grand jury as upon the review of a trial when error is alleged; but in extreme cases, when the court can see that the finding of a grand jury is based upon such utterly insufficient evidence, or such palpably incompetent evidence, as to indicate that the indictment resulted from prejudice, or was found in willful disregard of the rights of tile accused, the court should Interfere and quash the indictment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An exception to the general rules of law, which forbid a record to be contradicted, a grand juror to disclose the proceedings of the jury, or to impeach its findings, will only be allowed in rare and extraordinary cases, and where the matters, if true, worked a manifest and substantial injury to the defendant, which the court, in the interest of justice, is bound to redress.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It could only be in a very clear case, where it could be made to appear manifestly, and beyond every reasonable doubt, that an indictment apparently legal and formal bad not in fact the sanctions which the law and the constitution require, that the court would sustain a motion to quash or dismiss it, upon a suggestion of this kind.” Low’s Case, 4 Greenl. (Me.) 446.”
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.