State v. MacQueen’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1965 · most notably State v. Owens (1924), State v. MacRi (1963)
27 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 Boyd v. United States · John Barron John Craig Luke Tiernan John Craig v. Mayor City Council of Baltimore · The Anarchists' Case Spies · Isaac Smith Owner of the Sloop Volant v. The State of Maryland · Gindrat v. People
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And it would seem that after arrest made the person of the accused may properly be examined without a search-warrant in order to find evidence of his guilt, and that such an examination would not be deemed an unreasonable search.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Alexander
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.