Garcia v. Dial’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Marin v. State (1993), Studer v. State (1990)
2 federal appellate · 118 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 Cleveland v. Ward · Morrow v. Corbin · American Plant Food Corporation v. State · Wade v. State · State Ex Rel. Smith v. Blackwell
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is well settled that a valid indictment, or information if indictment is waived, is essential to the district court's jurisdiction in a criminal case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Weatherby v. State · Olivo v. State““attachment of jurisdiction ... conveys upon that court the power to determine all essential questions ‘and to do any and all things with reference thereto authorized by the Constitution and statutes ... ’” (emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““when a trial court empowered with jurisdiction over a criminal case sustains a motion to dismiss the indictment or information, the person accused thereunder is, in law, discharged from the accusation against him; there is concomitant to such dismissal, no case pending against the accused and, accordingly, no jurisdiction remaining in the dismissing court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.