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← 49 MICH 348 - Wheaton v. Whittemore

Wheaton v. Whittemore’s Empirical Analysis

1882

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
3
states following
October 1921
most recently cited

8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1921

8 state decisions

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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 Burton v. Driggs · Evanston v. Gunn · Marston v. . Gould · Gilbert v. Kennedy · Marsh v. . Ellsworth

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The officer is not bound to look behind a regular warrant coming from a proper jurisdiction. In many cases it must be exceedingly difficult for the officer or his advisers to determine whether a warrant is or is not defective upon its face, and in view of the peculiar position in which the officer is placed, in all such cases he cannot be held liable in a civil action for damages, for making the arrést. “Where a criminal warrant is issued by a magistrate in a case where he has no authority to issue process of that nature, ordinarily no question could arise; but, where jurisdiction is given him over the subject-matter, his warrant ‘reciting the substance of the accusation’ will not always show upon its face whether the magistrate did or did not have the necessary jurisdictional facts, before him. And the officer is not required for his protection to inquire into the facts back of his warrant.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Larson v. Collins

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.