Pleasant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably Williams v. State (1975), Holder v. State (1894)
46 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was competent for [the third party] to state, on his examination in chief, the appearance of [the victim], when she came to the mill, and that she complained that an assault had been made upon her; but the court erred in permitting his (sic) then to state the particular facts which she related to him. But the particulars of her statement might have been brought out, by way of confirming her testimony, after the attempt made by the prisoner to impeach her credit. [Emphasis ours.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.