State v. Woolard’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1976 · most notably State v. Taylor (1893), State v. Hubbard (1943)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 State v. Moxley · Haynes v. Town of Trenton · State v. Jackson · People v. Fong Ah Sing · State v. Harkins
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“•‘This was highly improper. It. tvas not in evidence. It is exceedingly probable that it is true, but Mr. Scott should have gone on the stand and testified to the fact, if it was permissible; but, even if it was not, it would not justify counsel in stating it, even though the court had refused to let him testify.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the defendant's evidence is sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt, or if the state's evidence is so defective as to raise a reasonable doubt, or if, taking all the evidence on both sides, there is a reasonable doubt, of the defendant's guilt, he is entitled to an acquittal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hubbard““Mr. Scott told the witness Brown that all he wanted was the truth. * * * Scott made no promise to the witness Brown to induce him to testify.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.