State v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1973
10 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. Williams · State v. Vickers · 52 La. Ann. 616 - State v. Robinson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is well settled,’ this court has said, ‘that where a party is bona fide surprised at the unexpected testimony of his witness, he may be permitted to interrogate him as to previous declarations, inconsistent with the testimony given; the object being to test the witness’ recollection and lead him, if mistaken, to review what he has said. ’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garner · State v. Sills
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.