Snyder v. Cearfoss’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Nizer v. Phelps (1969), Alston v. Forsythe (1961)
36 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 Quercia v. United States · Snyder v. Cearfoss · Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard, Inc. v. Scherpenisse · Larkin v. Smith · Griffith v. Diffenderffer
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When, as here, the stenographer himself, by his testimony in court, verifies the transcript as an authentic extension of his notes, the case is different. In addition to the assurance of authenticity afforded by his oath, there is official character in the transcript because the stenographer is appointed by the court, under the authority of a statute for the very purpose of preserving testimony.... It is settled that he may testify from his notes, without reference to independent recollection.... And his transcript is only a more convenient form of testimony from his notes.... Therefore the fact that the stenographer in this instance had no independent recollection, and was in reality introducing the tran script in evidence, did not render it inadmissible as supposed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gonzalez 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.