In re Summerhayes’s Empirical Analysis
70 F. 769 · 1895
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1993
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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.
““It is one of the inheritances we have as an English-speaking people, coming down through the long channels of the common law, to respect and sustain the sanctity of the jury room and the secrecy of the procedure of investigation provided for grand jurors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Atwell““The courts may as well close their doors and let the administration of justice fall into the hands of those who will deal in it as an article of personal favor or purchasable merchandise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Atwell
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.