Vega v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2020
18 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a juvenile offender may indeed be indicted by a Grand Jury without first being afforded a removal hearing before a local criminal court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“juveniles between the ages of 13 and 15 who are charged with certain enumerated, serious crimes of violence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to interpret statutes so as to reach a reasonable result whenever possible”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.