Tenney v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1843
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 1940
13 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 Bridge v. Eggleston · Dana v. Tucker · People v. Columbia Common Pleas
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could not be received to show that they misapprehended the instructions of the court, nor, where there is evidence of improper conduct by the jury or the prosecutor relating to the trial, to prove in general terms that their verdict was founded upon nothing but the law and the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. Yeatman“Nor to impeach the verdict, or prove a mistake, or any improper conduct by themselves.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. Yeatman
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.