State v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Singh (2002), State v. Robinson (1993)
89 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 Smith v. Phillips · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Grunewald v. United States · United States v. Hale · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]mpeachment of a witness by the use of a prior inconsistent statement is proper only if the two statements are in fact inconsistent. ... Moreover, the inconsistency must be substantial and relate to a material matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“statements from which a possible inference of inconsistency may be drawn are insufficient for the purpose of impeachment.”
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.