Pontier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2001
13 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 United States v. Gale · Rabbitt v. Gaither · Struth v. Decker · Halbrook v. State · Slingluff v. Andrew Volk Builders' Supply Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not evidence for any purpose. It was not an authenticated copy of any public record at all, but merely a statement by the clerk of his own conclusions from an examination of records alleged to be in his custody. It did not even profess to state the substance or contents of the record but was an attempted certification as to the facts not appearing of record. A copy of the record itself must be produced so that the tribunal before which it is offered in evidence may see what it does and does not contain. Oral testimony under oath of a search made of public records and its results is sometimes admitted to show the non-appearance thereon of certain entries or facts, but a mere negative certificate of the kind offered in this case is not admissible for that purpose. 17 Cyc. 337-8; Elliott on Evidence, vol. 2, sec. 1355.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.