In re Way’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1940 · most notably Carroll v. United States (1925), Robison v. Miner (1888)
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And this has only been recognized in felony, and in breaches of the peace committed in presence of the officer.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The law of the land must be accepted by every one as the only rule which can be allowed to govern the liberties of citizens, whatever may be their ill desert. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Licavoli
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.