Williams v. Graff’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Hunt v. State (1990), Fowler v. Smith (1965)
3 federal appellate · 69 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 The Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Company v. James Stimpson · Wills v. Russell · Cumberland & Westernport Transit Co. v. Metz · Crunkilton v. Hook · Consolidated Gas Electric Light & Power Co. v. State Ex Rel. Smith
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where a general subject has been entered upon in the examination in chief, the cross-examining counsel may ask any relevant question on the general subject. In our judgment the rule limiting cross-examination to the general facts stated on direct examination should not be so applied as to defeat the real object of cross-examination, i.e., to elicit all the facts of any observation or transaction which has not been fully explained. (Citations omitted). The scope to which the cross-examination may extend rests largely in the discretion of the trial judge, and his ruling thereon will not be disturbed by the Court of Appeals, unless it appears that some injustice has been done. (Emphasis supplied).””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shupe v. State · Trimble 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.