State v. Pitts’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 1926 · most notably Woolfolk v. State (1890), State v. Van Wye (1896)
1 district · 45 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no error in overruling the motion of (defendant to have the jury impaneled from the regular panel of jurors. * * * And it was a matter of no moment that the regular panel for the term was not selected by the county court at least 30 days prior to the commencement of the term at which the ■prisoner was tried in accordance with the above mentioned act. That act. can only be regarded as merely directory. To rule that it is mandatory would be to hold that, if by any accident the county court should not meet and select jurors in the time and manner provided by the. act, the wheels of justice would have to stand still, and the circuit court be' prevented from transacting its duties respecting crimes and criminals simply because the county court failed to discharge its duty. No such ruling will be made.””
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.