Craig v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1968 · most notably Greenwalt v. State (1965), State v. Dutton (1957)
27 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 Deal v. State · Lee v. State · State v. Cushenberry · People v. Rolfe · 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general rule, a wide range is given to evidence upon the question of identity of the accused person with the guilty party. Generally speaking, the identification of the person charged with the commission of the offense is not required to be established by direct or positive evidence. The witness, upon his examination, may testify that he ... is of the opinion that the accused is the person who committed the crime. His means of knowledge, however, or the facts upon which he bases his opinion, ... in respect to the identity of the accused, may be thoroughly tested . . . upon cross-examination. The weight . . . to be given to the testimony of such witness . . . is a matter for the determination of the jury, or the court trying the case. People v. Rolfe (1882), 61 Cal. 540 ; State v. Powers (1895), 130 Mo. 475 , 32 S. W. 984 ; State v. Cushenberry (1900), 157 Mo. 168 , 56 S. W. 737 , and authorities cited; 12 Cyc. 392, clause ‘e,’ and cases cited; Wharton, Crim. Ev. (9th Ed.), §459; Gillett, Indirect Collateral Evidence, §§199, 213.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross v. State
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.