Waycaster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2009
24 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 Dixon v. State · Sealy v. State · Pines 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a witness has been successfully impeached, he has been shown to be utterly unworthy of credit, and, of course, a witness in this position should not be believed.” In Waycaster v. State, 136 Ga. 95, 103 (supra), the court stated: “There are several ways in which a witness may be impeached. A witness is impeached when the jury is convinced by proof upon the trial that he is unworthy of credit. Whether or not a witness has been impeached is a question for the jury.” In Powell v. State, 122 Ga. 571 ( 50 S. E. 369 ,) the court said:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.