In re McKenna’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This court will not release, on habeas corpus, one who is held under a warrant issued on an information that does not charge any offense, before an application of any kind is presented to the court issuing'the warrant. Many informations are defective, and must be amended before the defendant can be properly placed on trial on the charge attempted to be set out therein, but habeas corpus is not the means resorted to for the purpose of protecting the defendant. Subdivision 4 of section 699 of the code of civil procedure prohibits habeas corpus where the one applying for the writ is held on a warrant issued on an information. (Ex parte, Charles Phillips, 7 Kan. 48 ; In re Scrafford, Petitioner, etc., 21 Kan. 735, 747 ; In re Gray, 64 Kan. 850 , 68 Pac. 658 ; In re Terry, 71 Kan. 362 , 80 Pac. 586 ; In re McElroy, 10 Kan. App. 348 , 58 Pac. 677 .)””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Wheatley