State v. Lapointe’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2012 · most notably United States v. Gainey (1965), State v. McDonough (1942)
5 federal appellate · 23 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 Mobile Jackson Kansas City Railroad Company v. J a Turnipseed · Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Taggart · Albert Adams v. People of the State of New York · People v. Adams · People v. . Cannon
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The very essence of “trial by jury” is the right of each juror to weigh the evidence for himself, and in the exercise of his own reasoning faculties, determine whether or not the facts involved in the issue are proved. And if this right is taken from the juror — if he is not allowed to weigh the evidence for himself — is not allowed to use his own reasoning faculties, but, on the contrary, is obliged to accept the evidence at the weight which others have affixed to it, and to return and affirm a verdict... of the truth of which he has reasonable doubts — then, very clearly, the substance, the very essence, of “trial by jury” will be taken away and its form only will remain.”
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.