State v. Childers’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 1994 · most notably 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur (1973), 305 So. 2d 421 - State v. Hodgeson (1974)
46 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 Clark v. United States · State v. Dreher · State v. Jackson · Succession of Bonner · Bujac v. Wilson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The answer elicited by the question was not hearsay. The witness was not requested to repeat what Mr. Robertson [the deceased attorney] had said but was asked to state as a fact whether anything had been said. The answer to the question was "No". While this testimony was negative in character it was relevant and admissible as a circumstance tending to refute Mr. Roland's [the defendant's] statement that Mr. Robertson had drawn the form of a will and also tending to show the falsity of the defendant Roland's statement as to how the will was confected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the case of Clark v. United States, 289 U.S. 1 , 53 S.Ct. 465 , 77 L.Ed. 993 , the accused was adjudged guilty of criminal contempt of court in deliberately obstructing justice by giving answers knowingly misleading and false, in response to questions covering her qualifications as a juror. In discussing the question of the admissibility of the testimony claimed to have been barred as privileged, the court said:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In 125 A.L.R. page 512, we find: `Although, as will be subsequently shown, a contrary view was formerly taken in some jurisdictions, the great majority of the cases hold that the privilege protecting communications between attorney and client is lost if the relation is abused, as where the client seeks advice that will serve him in the commission of a fraud.'”
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.