Dolan v. . People’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Agnew v. United States (1897), State v. Hauptmann (1935)
1 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““'Precise number is fixed by the statute for no purpose of benefit or advantage to the persons who may be presented for indictment. The sole object of requiring this number is to secure the attendance at court of a sufficient number to constitute a grand jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cooley“may be said to be engaged in the commission of the crime until he leaves the building”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.