Bigham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1974
11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The proceedings in a trial by a justice of the peace of one charged with a misdemeanor are regulated by law. . . . It is true that persons may be arrested in certain cases without a warrant; but without a charge preferred as required by law, there is no case to be disposed of by the'justice of the peace, and nothing to sustain a conviction in such a case as this record presents.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Goetz
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.