State v. Carns’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Shaw (1963), State v. Gommenginger (1990)
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 State v. Jones · Vonault v. O'Rourke · State v. Howard · Kipp v. Silverman · State v. Hay
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where two witnesses testify directly opposite to each other on a material point and are the only ones that testify [on] that same point, you are not bound to consider the evidence evenly balanced or the point not proved; you may regard all the surrounding facts and circumstances proved on the trial and give credence to one witness over the other if you think the facts and circumstances warrant it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Croteau“It is within the sound discretion of the trial court whether a witness who has been examined shall be recalled for further examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hatfield
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.