Swanson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Turner v. State (1972), Webb v. State (1972)
34 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 Berger v. United States · People v. Munday · Hauk v. State · Howard v. State · People v. Arnold
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'We think that it is error for the court to single out any special witness, personally, and burden his testimony with any suggestions which might indicate to the jury that in the opinion of the court such witness was liable to testify falsely. Instructions as to the credibility of witnesses should be general, and apply equally to all of the witnesses for the state and the defendant alike. Because a witness may be the defendant is no reason why he should be visited with condemnation upon the one hand, or clothed with sanctity upon the other. He is before the court as a witness, and should be treated by both the court and the jury just as other witnesses are treated-no better and no worse.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Collier v. State · Yeary v. State““It is well established in Indiana that the jury is the sole judge of the credibility of all witnesses and an instruction is erroneous as invading the province of the jury to the extent that the trial court would be intimidating his opinion of the credibility of any witness or the weight to be given to their testimony.” (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions 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.