State v. Megorden’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Farnam (1916), State v. Moore (1925)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 Hayes v. State of Missouri · Spies v. Illinois · The Anarchists' Case Spies · Stokes v. . People of the State of N.Y. · State v. McDaniel
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he simple question, after the peremptory challenges are exhausted, is: Is the jury which finally tries the case impartial? If so, we cannot imagine that the accused has any just ground of complaint with regard to it.”
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.