State v. Brodt’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1962
6 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 Havenor v. State · Wilkerson v. Eilers · Selden, Withers & Co. v. Bank of Commerce · Read v. City of Cambridge · Crabtree v. Hagenbaugh
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Defendant’s counsel sought to bring out by cross-examination of Wasser that he was filled with hatred of defendant and was anxious to ‘get’ him or have him convicted. The cross-examination would naturally lead the jury to infer that there were expressions in the letter indicating such a desire. Such was not the fact. Of course the letter was not admissible as independent evidence of defendant’s guilt, but, under the circumstances, we think it was admissible to clear up the jury’s possible misapprehension of the facts. When the significance of a former statement of a witness has been distorted by a fragmentary or inaccurate repetition of it, the entire conversation or writing may be received to explain its true significance.””
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.