Woodard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1946
11 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 Kenyon v. . the People · Armstrong v. . People · Boyce v. . People of the State of New York · Polk v. State · Lasater 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The rule applicable to the cross-examination of witnesses who testify as to reputation is stated in 3 Enc. of Ev., p. 49, as follows: ‘It is generally held that such a witness may be asked on cross-examination as to an existence of particular facts, vices, or associations of the other persons inconsistent with the reputation attributed to him by the witness, not for the purpose of establishing the truth of such acts, but to test the witness ’ -credibility, and to enable, the jury to ascertain the weight to be given to his testimony.’ ” _”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bridges 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.