Beaubien v. Cicotte’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 1961 · most notably State v. Pike (1870), Rivard v. Rivard (1896)
1 federal appellate · 50 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Delafield v. . Parish · Waterman v. . Whitney · Florey's Executors v. Florey · Wilkinson v. Moseley · Roberts v. Trawick
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In many cases the facts which can be described will be very significant to a jury, while there are many facts susceptible of a different interpretation, from which a jury could obtain no light whatever without the aid of the witness’ judgment. The strongest indications of mental weakness or aberra tion often exist in expressions and appearances incapable of reproduction, even by an accomplished mimic; and yet decisive to any. intelligent eyewitness.” .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Paul v. Clements
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.