Becker v. . Koch’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently December 1985 · most notably De Meli v. . De Meli (1890), People v. . Sexton (1907)
99 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Coulter v. . American Merchants' Un. Ex. Co. · Lawrence v. Barker · Thompson v. . Blanchard
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(page 404). “It is,>a. good general rule that, the credibility of a witness is matter for the jury, and the fewer technical obstructions there are to the practical operation of that rule the better”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Munzer
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.