Hershey v. People Ex Rel. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
December 1987
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Meehan v. State
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o release him from prison on parole' would defeat, or tend to defeat, that purpose— Payment, and that alone, entitles such person to a release before the expiration of the time of confinement fixed by the court. The body execution act was passed for the benefit of the execution creditor; ... he is entitled to have the defendant detained in prison for the full time specified in the judgment, unless before the expiration of that time the defendant pays the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kinsey v. Preeson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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