State v. Swope’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1950
5 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 Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs R. R. v. Campbell, Nelson & Co. · Ex parte Snyder · Bundy v. Hart · State v. Poston · State v. Millsaps
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever any person within this state shall be charged, on the oath or affirmation of any credible witness, before any judge or magistrate of a court of record, except judge of the probate court, with the commission of any crime in any other state or territory of the United States, and that he fled from justice, it shall be lawful for the judge or magistrate'to issue his warrant for the apprehension of the party charged”.”
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.