Driggers v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1979
12 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 Thomas Ellicott v. William Pearl · State v. Grant · People v. . Kief · Robb v. Hackley & Welton · Hicks v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a general rule that where evidence of contradictory statements is offered to impeach the credit "of a witness, evidence of statements made by him on former occasions, consistent with his evidence, are inadmissible. But, where it is charged that the evidence of the witness is a recent fabrication, and is the result of some relation to the party or cause, or of some motive or personal interest, his evidence may be supported by show-inc that he had made a similar statement before that relation or motive existed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An official return is the best evidence of the doings of the officer under the mandates of the writ or process, and is sufficient as proof of the facts which the officer is authorized and required to certify.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox 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.