State v. Ponthier’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1998
18 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 Alford v. United States · Wallace v. State · People v. Mleczko · State v. . Roberson · People v. . Becker
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if the witness were charged with some other offense by the prosecuting authorities, petitioner was entitled to show by cross[-]examination that his testimony was affected by fear or favor growing out of his detention. ... If it was not clear in the Ritz case, it should be made clear here, that a defendant is entitled to show, by cross-examination that a State’s witness’ testimony is affected by fear or favor growing out of his detention by reason of any offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Flores
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.