Pradlik v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Turner v. Scanlon (1959), Ravitch v. Stollman Poultry Farms, Inc. (1973)
61 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. . Shilitano · State v. Goldberger · Powell v. Commonwealth · Levine v. Union & New Haven Trust Co.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The court [must be] reasonably well satisfied that the testimony given by a material witness [at the original trial was] false. (b) That without it the jury might have reached a different conclusion. (c) That the party seeking the new trial was taken by surprise when the false testimony was given and was unable to meet it or did not know of its falsity until after the trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the court compares the old testimony with the new and decides, in the exercise of a sound discretion ... whether the newly discovered evidence is likely to change the result”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones 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.