Carson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1975
16 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 DeArman v. State · Hussey v. State · Moulton v. State · Thompson v. State · Ingram 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Much latitude is allowed upon cross-examination of a witness as to character, even sometimes to the extent, within the sound discretion of the trial court, of asking questions which may call for irrelevant evidence. This for the purpose of testing the accuracy, credibility and sincerity of the witness. As to how a witness makes up his .estimate of character is a proper subject of inquiry upon cross-examination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State
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.