Jackson v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1981 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Davidson v. Whitehill (1914)
27 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 Palmer v. Oakley
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The office of a certiorari is not however to review questions of fact, but questions of law. And in examining into the evidence the appellate court does so not to determine whether the probabilities preponderate one way or the other but simply to determine whether the evidence, is such that it will justify the finding.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We have examined with much care all the English authorities within reach, bearing upon this subject, and have found nothing whatever to give color to such a distinction. There are indeed cases where a certiorari lies to examine errors generally, and others where it lies only to inquire into the jurisdiction; but the distinction arises out of very different considerations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where facts exist which, if apparent, would have ousted 'the jurisdiction, they have been allowed to be set forth in the affidavits of the relator, and a response’ required.””
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.