Byrd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably 373 So. 2d 1042 - Gandy v. State (1979), 445 So. 2d 815 - House v. State (1984)
47 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 Ransom v. State · Brown v. State · Johnson v. State · Lefere v. Krohn
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that a witness was intoxicated at the time of the events concerning which he testifies bears upon his capacity for accurate observation and correct memory and hence is proper to be shown in passing on his credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“since it is clear, from the entire situation, that the case is such that we would be compelled to take the same action in the event of another conviction, we order the defendant discharged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“intoxication has an added element of relevancy when the testimony has shown . . . that the general reputation of the [victim] for violence was bad[.]”
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.