Bryant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1993 · most notably Mattox v. State (1961), 310 So. 2d 908 - Lay v. State (1975)
29 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 Sparf v. United States · Collier v. State · Justice v. State · Lee v. State · Whittington 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a witness is so stubborn that he will not talk, or so much of a partisan that he will not do so politely, this can be shown on the cross examination of that witness, and it thereupon becomes a most effective weapon for the depreciation of the weight of the testimony of such a witness when it is submitted to the jury that he was so biased that he would not talk, or, if so, only in an impolite way, or else that his refusal to talk was because of a consciousness that his story, if told in advance, was so insecure in point of truth as not to stand the scrutiny of any previous examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lacy 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.