State v. Pagels’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably People v. . McQuade (1888), Davis v. State (1902)
53 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 State v. Griffin · State v. Butler · State v. Leabo · State v. Roy · State v. Burns
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prosecuting officers, even in the heat of debate, ought .not.to forget that they owe a duty to the defendant as well as to the state; to the state, to fairly prosecute, and to endeavor to secure conviction by all proper methods and legitimate modes; to the defendant, to refrain from doing or saying aught which the highest sense of professional honor will not sanction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order for the introduction, as evidence, of certified copies of the records of the hospitals for the insane at Anna and Jacksonville, Illinois, it was necessary, under the terms of Section 2285 (now Section 1661) to show that such institutions were ` public offices of a sister state.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hendrix
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.