Pease v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably 157 Ind. App. 385 - Farley v. Farley (1973), In Re Petitions to Transfer Appeals From Appellate Court to Supreme Court (1931)
42 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 Reynolds v. Stockton · O'Brien v. People ex rel. Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co. · Jackson v. Smith · State v. Simpson · State v. Boswell
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In this state it has been held consistently that a criminal action can be commenced only in the manner provided by law, and that it is the filing of the accusation in lawful form that invokes the jurisdiction of the court in the particular cause. .. ." "It is a universal principle as old as the law that the proceedings of a court without jurisdiction are a nullity and its judgment void...."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is a universal principle as old as the law that the proceedings of a court without jurisdiction are a nullity and its judgment void....”
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.