People v. Sweeney’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1933 · most notably Eggart v. State (1898), People v. Aikin (1887)
1 district · 25 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 Kane v. People · People v. Rynders · Lightfoot v. People · M'Gregg v. State · State v. Flye
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When distinct offenses are charged in different counts, but are committed by the same acts, at the same time, and the same testimony must necessarily be relied upon for conviction, the prisoner cannot be confounded in making his defense, and the people ought not to be compelled to elect. ’ ’.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is unnecessary now to determine the extent of the injury required to bring a case within the statute under which the conviction in this case was had. It very clearly appears from the record that f great bodily harm, less than murder,’ was committed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Troy
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.