State v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Villaroman v. United States (1950), State v. Hart (1954)
11 federal appellate · 16 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 Dotterer v. State · Koenig v. Union Depot Railway Co. · State v. Darling · Oldham v. Commonwealth · State v. Steele
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A wide range of cross-examination should be allowed to show the motive, interest, or animus of a witness. * * * The jury have the right both in civil and criminal cases to consider the interest which the witness may have in the result of the litigation.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Schanck
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.