Hayes v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1999
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Boaz v. Tate · Johnson v. Mayor of Americus · Scircle v. Neeves
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to imprison was a question for the jury, under appropriate instructions. There should certainly be no imprisonment, unless the circumstances rendered such imprisonment necessary. If, by reason of the unreasonableness of the hour, or the inaccessibility of the mayor or other magistrate having jurisdiction, the offender could not be then brought to trial; or, if by reason of riotous or lawless conduct, the peace-preserving powers of the marshal were, or seemed to be in request, to maintain the general peace, or, to protect others or their property from lawlessness, then "it would not he the duty of the marshal to exhaust his entire energies, in personally detaining the prisoner, to the neglect of all other equally pressing duties. In such case, he would be authorized to imprison the offender, until he could be properly brought to trial. ’ ’ Hayes v. Mitchell, 69 Ala. 452 ; Johnson v. Mayor, 46 Ga. 80 ; Boaz v. Tate, 43 Ind. 60 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Possibly in cities and large towns there is need of greater license in the matter of making arrests, and of detention, without warrant; but it culminates at last in the inquiry: What is reasonably demanded, to guard and protect the public .peace? The time of the day or night, the surrounding circumstances, the peaceful or riotous conduct of the public, the necessity, real or apparent, that the arresting officer shall be on the alert to prevent other acts of violence or lawless disturbance, * * * all these enter into the inquiry: What is the duty of the arresting officer?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Warsham
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.