State v. Mackey’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1932
15 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 People v. Dick · Pennsylvania Mining Co. v. Brady
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no distinction, so far as the rule is concerned, between admitting declarations of hostility of a witness for the purpose of affecting the value of. his testimony, and admitting contradictory statements for the same purpose”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Holbrook““The ends of justice are best attained by allowing a free and ample scope for scrutinizing evidence and estimating' its real value.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Weston
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.