In Re Santillanes’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Swafford v. State (1991), Pee v. United States (1959)
10 federal appellate · 99 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Norton v. Shelby County · Norton v. Shelby Co State of Tennessee · State of Ohio Bryant v. Akron Metropolitan Park Dist for Summit County State of Ohio Wadsworth · Luckenbach Co v. United States · Asplund v. Alarid
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There are thus presented for consideration and decision separate challenges to the existence of the juvenile court itself which, if either be of the effect claimed, will result in a declaration of nullity, all because of the ineligibility of the judge selected to preside over it. And the challenges come, not in a direct proceeding by the state to test, on the grounds urged, the judges' right to sit, but rather from a private suitor in a collateral proceeding having for its primary aim his discharge from a claimed illegal detention, the declaration of nullity to be merely an incidental means of accomplishing the primary end sought."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * Suffice it to say, these cases plainly hold it to be the prerogative of the state alone, moving in its sovereign capacity, not that of the private suitor, to initiate and conduct to judgment proceedings fraught with such fateful and weighty consequences as, in the case at bar, for instance, would attend a declaration that a court which has functioned for nearly a quarter of a century, never had any existence at all."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“original jurisdiction in all matters and causes not excepted by this constitution, and such jurisdiction of special cases and proceedings as may be conferred by law. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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