Graham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1956
15 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 Hibbard v. Kirby
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . No consideration of expediency, of cost or convenience in the rapid disposition of causes on the criminal calendar can enter into the determination of the question — -it is simply one of power, and in-that the constitution has set the boundary to the courts and legislature alike, without granting to either the discretion to depart from its mandate upon any idea of expediency. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State““Compulsory process for obtaining witnesses, means the right to invoke the aid of the law to compel the personal attendance of witnesses at the trial, when they are within the jurisdiction of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greene v. Ballard
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.