Skipper v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably McLane v. Commonwealth (1960), 10 Ill. App. 3d 652 - People v. King (1973)
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 Dejarnette v. Commonwealth · Butler v. Parrocha · Rogers v. State · State v. Reed · Mazer v. Commonwealth
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A failure to assert a fact when it would have been natural to assert it amounts in effect to an assertion of the nonexistence of the fact. Such conduct is prima facie, an inconsistency. Wigmore on Evidence (3d ed.) sec. 1042, p. 733. This inconsistency, unexplained, has a tendency to discredit the witness.”
1 later decision 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.