Butler v. Wentworth’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2011
11 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 Bain Jr · Wilson · Medley · Mackin v. United States · In re Mills
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.
““No person shall be held to answer for a capital or infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except ... in such cases of offences, as are usually cognizable by a justice of the peace, . . . .” (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sklar
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.