State v. Ackles’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably State v. Berlin (1997), State v. Peterson (1997)
44 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 People v. . Casey
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The accused, in criminal prosecutions, has a constitutional right to be apprised of the nature and cause of the accusation against him. Const., art. 1, § 22. And this can only be made known by setting forth in the indictment or information every fact constituting an element of the offense charged. This doctrine is elementary, and of universal application, and is founded on the plainest principle of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““He might have been convicted upon this information of an assault with intent to commit murder, or of simple assault, or of assault and battery, for those offenses were sufficiently charged under the provisions of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Levan“[N]o one can legally be convicted of an offense not properly alleged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Powell
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.