Ager v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 1983
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Webb v. People · Lillibridge v. Barber · Parker v. Mather
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Assailing the credibility of witnesses by questioning them about their supposed weaknesses, misdeeds and mis-fortunes, short of crimes whereof they have been convicted, and wholly unrelated to the issue which is being tried, is all too common. * * * Such practice is vicious in its inevitable tendency to prejudice both the party and the witness, and counsel are expected to refrain scrupulously therefrom and thus to observe the spirit as v/eil as the letter of the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Taylor
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.