Gerrish v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 1949
1 federal appellate · 22 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 White v. Fisk
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the grand jury knew only the initials of defendant’s first names, and could not have found out by reasonable diligence what these names were, it would have been legal for them to have indicted him as * * * [E. E. Upham,] using the initials as such, if they had added that his name was unknown to them otherwise than as set out. But this they have not done, and so the indictment is left subject to the plea in abatement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We agree with the Supreme Court of Connecticut in Tweedy v. Jarvis, 27 Conn. 42 , that letters of the alphabet, consonants as well as vowels, may be used as the names of persons, if given to them as such.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When the party is not correctly named, he must take advantage of the error by -plea in abatement.””
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.