State v. Winchester’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Gunby (2006), State v. Chandler (2018)
44 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 State v. Miller · State v. Ridge
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In those instances in criminal prosecutions where the trial judge deems it necessary to cross-examine a witness, and particularly the defendant, or to resort to other means in order to accomplish the full development of the truth of the matter in issue, he is bound to exercise extreme care to prevent giving to the jury the impression that he is biased against the defendant or that he does not consider the witness or the defendant worthy of belief, and he should not, by the form, manner or extent of his questioning and remarks, indicate to the jury his opinion as to the defendant’s guilt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wheeler · State v. Blake““. . . nowhere in the record is it shown that that portion relating to prior offenses by the defendant was offered for the purpose of showing his alleged tendencies to commit the crime in question, even assuming that under the state of the testimony such evidence was admissible. “. . . Furthermore, evidence of other offenses by the defendant in the state’s case in chief may only be offered under certain circumstances and when surrounded by certain legal safeguards — not here present and which need not here be discussed.” (1. c. 515, 516.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A juror is prone to watch any indication by the judge as to how he regards any part of the testimony or the credibility of a witness and for that reason a trial judge must scrupulously avoid the slightest indication as to his personal feelings concerning the matter in issue.” State v. Winchester, 166 Kan. 512, 518 , 203 P.2d 229 (1949).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Chandler · State v. Kemble
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.