In re State’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015 · most notably Betts v. Brady (1942), District of Columbia v. Clawans (1937)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 68 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The framers of all our constitutions were well acquainted with the history of legislation in regard to the exercise of summary jurisdiction, both in England and in this state, and of the needs of society for summary protection against the vicious, idle, vagrant and disorderly portion of its members; and it is difficult to suppose that, by any provision incorporated in those instruments, it rvas intended to nullify previous legislation, altogether interdict the use of a long.and well-established summary jurisdiction for the protection of society, and thus rad ically change and seriously impair the whole police system of the state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“All Judges shall by virtue of their offices be Conservators of the Peace throughout the State; . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Betts v. Brady“entitled to the common law of England, and the trial by jury, according to the course of that law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duffy v. State
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.