Small v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Brooks v. Tennessee (1972), 1 Wash. App. 785 - State v. Whalon (1970)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Maher v. State · Fisher v. State · Griffith v. State · Morgan v. State · Kitts v. State
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The credibility of witnesses and the weight of the evidence are for the jury to determine in a criminal case and the verdict of the jury may not be disturbed by this court unless it is clearly wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Knecht
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.