State v. Jeffries’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
1 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 1980 · most notably State v. Owens (1924), State v. Shawley (1933)
1 district · 47 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 State v. Barrington · Gindrat v. People · State v. Patterson · State v. Flynn · Washburn v. People
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no precise age at which children are competent or incompetent. Their competency is to be determined by their apparent capacity. It belongs to the judge in each case to determine by appropriate questions the competency of the infant offered as a witness, and his decision is not open to review unless there be a clear abuse of judicial discretion, or the witness be admitted or rejected upon an erroneous view of a legal principle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“incapable of receiving just impressions of the facts respecting which”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.