In re Jahn’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1972
10 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 McInerney v. City of Denver
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A distinction has always been taken between offenses against mere municipal regulations and those which are made penal by the laws of the state because of their supposed evil consequences to society; the courts holding that the former might be punished summarily by proceedings in the municipal court, while as to the latter the defendant is entitled to a trial by jury.” (p. 697.)”
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.