State v. Alton’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1986
19 state decisions
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 Insurance Company v. Mosley · Commonwealth v. Sturtivant · O'Connor v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway · Hyvonen v. Hector Iron Co. · State v. Horan
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“«* * * we are strongly impressed with the view that the rule should be liberally applied, at least in cases of accident or pérsonal injury, when the party is suffering from bodily pain or mental anguish. Neither the length of time intervening nor the place of the declaration are necessarily controlling. If under all the circumstances of a given case it can reasonably be said that the declaration is probably true, it may be submitted for the consideration of the jury with proper instructions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quinnild
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.