State v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1956
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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of this clause was to prevent the bringing of any citizen under the reproach of being arraigned for dime before the public, unless, by a previous examination, taken in private, the grand inquest had certified that there existed some solid ground for making the charge. It took from the law officer of tire state, the attorney-general, one of the established prerogatives of his office, that of filing his information against supposed offenders and thus putting them on trial at his oto volition. The reputation of every man was thus put under the care of a single specified body. The language of the constitutional clause is very comprehensive, and the specified exceptions show conclusively that it was intended to cover the residue of the entire field of criminal accusation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Green““The offence of selling liquor without a license is a purely statutory offence. Independently of a prohibition by the legislature, such a sale is neither immoral nor illegal, and the law-maker, therefore, can put it under such control as may be thought best. Not being in its nature an indictable offence, it can be made punishable by a penalty, without indictment.” (at 228)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Maier““As it is manifest that the two indictments in this case, the one being for the unlicensed sale of ardent spirits, and the other for repetitions of the same offence, contravene, with perfect directness, the prohibitions of this last cited statute, the only questions to be solved are—First. Whether such act is in force; and, Second. Whether it is constitutional.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Maier
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.