Cody v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably Alexander v. State (1992), Anderson v. State (1934)
42 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 People v. Mead · Moore v. State · Ashford v. State · Williams 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A wide latitude is allowed on cross-examination to show bias or motives for the purpose of affecting the credibility.... [W]hen it comes to bias, friendship, motive, or hostility, a witness may be cross-examined as affecting his or her credibility as a witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A reversal is only warranted for such error as is harmful and which might influence the jury wrongfully in reaching a conclusion of guilt.”
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.