Mortensen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
December 1949
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Vanderpool v. State
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A witness may be interrogated as to his previous conviction for a felony, but no other proof of such conviction is competent except the record thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Latham v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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