State v. Pontery’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Busik v. Levine (1973), State v. Marshall (1991)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 123 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 Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · State v. Auld · Wheeler v. United States · Blue v. State · In Re Del Gobbo Vince
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant cannot beseech and request the trial court to take a certain course of action, and upon adoption by the court, take his chance on the outcome of the trial, and if unfavorable, then condemn the very procedure he sought and urged, claiming it to be error and prejudicial. [at 471].”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]s a general rule, any fact which bears against the credibility of a witness is relevant to the issue being tried, and the party against whom the witness is called has a right to have that fact laid before the jury in order to aid them in determining what credit should be given to the person testifying. And it is proper for either the defense or the prosecution to show the interest of a witness as bearing upon the witness' credibility. Were it otherwise, the value of cross-examination in the search for truth which goes on in our courts every day would be severely curtailed and in some respects perhaps extinguished altogether.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By the great weight of authority here ... the trial judge has broad discretion to determine the proper limits of cross-examination of a witness whose credibility is put in issue. [Ibid, (citations omitted).]”
3 later decisions 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.