In re McVey’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1997
14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A man may not be informed against for one crime, and convicted of another and different one. He is entitled to know the nature and cause of the accusation (see section 11, Bill of Rights), so that he may be enabled to prepare and make his defense, if any he has.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.