State v. Belcher’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 1916
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mitchum v. State · Handy v. Johnson · State v. Coleman · State v. McEvoy
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They are only admissible from the necessity of the case, and when made in extremis—when the party is at the point of death and is conscious of it-—when every hope of this world is gone and every motive to falsehood is silenced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth.”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thomas
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.