10 E.H. Smith 286 - People v. . Thorn’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1980 · most notably Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934), Commonwealth v. Dascalakis (1923)
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions — followed in 18 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 United States v. Cruikshank · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Cancemi v. . the People · People, Ex Rel. v. . Court of Oyer and Term · Shular 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It appears to us that the more rational and reasonable construction to be given to the provisions of the section is that the view is not the taking of testimony within the meaning of the bill of rights, but that the sole purpose and object of the view is to enable the jurors to more accurately understand and more fully appreciate the testimony of witnesses given before them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rogers
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.