State v. Parks’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Coleman v. State (1976), Taggard v. State (1972)
30 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 Costello v. United States · Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company v. United States · Michigan v. Ohio · United States v. Costello · 19 Ill. 2d 37 - The PEOPLE v. Jones
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is adequate to persuade reasonable minded persons that if unexplained or uncon-tradicted it would warrant a conviction of the person charged with an offense by the judge or jury trying the offense, (footnote omitted)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ison · State v. George“The grand jury ought to find an indictment when all the evidence taken together, if unexplained or uncontra-dicted, would warrant a conviction by the trier of the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In State v. Shelton [Alaska, 368 P.2d 817, 818-819 (1962)] this court said that one of the purposes of grand juries, as provided for in article I, section 8 of the Alaska constitution, is to carry out the vital function of protection of the innocent against oppression and unjust prosecution. Unless this court is prepared to change its evaluation of the role that grand juries actually play, or should play, in our society, rejection of the Supreme Court of the United States' construction of the fifth amendment, announced in Costello v. United States, is indicated. "If the institution of the grand jury is viewed as an anachronism, then Costello has appeal, for there the Supreme Court held that an indictment proper on its face returned by a legally constituted and unbiased grand jury is sufficient to require a trial on the merits. The Supreme Court in Costello also emphasized the likelihood of interminable delays and abuses of criminal practice which would result if indictments were held subject to attack on grounds of the inadequacy, or incompetency, of the evidence which was presented to the grand jury. Admittedly, these are factors which must be considered in the shaping of any system for the administration of criminal justice. Yet it seems to me that our system of criminal laws must include procedures whereby cases in which there is an absence of reliable evidence can be detected and filtered out prior to the trial stage. Before an individual suffers any of the serious incon”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hennigan v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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