Bolton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1969
17 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 People v. . Shilitano · Stephenson v. State · Dennis v. State · Whittaker v. State · State v. Wynn
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Whether a confession by a witness that he gave perjured testimony at the trial is presented in an ordinary motion for new trial or by a petition for writ of error coram nobis the question is: When did the witnesses tell the truth? The tribunal by which it is to be decided is the trial court, subject of course to review but not under rules more favorable to appellant than apply to review of a trial court's determination, upon conflicting evidence, of any other question of fact. ..... "... we add the following from the concurring opinion of Judge Cardozo in People v. Shilitano (1916), 218 N.Y. 161 , 112 N.E. 733 , L.R.A. 1916F, 1044 : "`Three witnesses for the prosecution have stated under oath to the trial judge that their testimony upon the trial was false. It became his duty to say whether they were conscience-stricken penitents, or criminal conspirators to defeat the ends of justice. He has held them to be conspirators. Unless we can say that he was wrong, and that they were not conspirators, but penitents, we have no right to reverse his order.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yessen v. State“`Three witnesses for the prosecution have stated under oath to the trial judge that their testimony upon the trial was false. It became his duty to say whether they were conscience-stricken penitents, or criminal conspirators to defeat the ends of justice. He has held them to be conspirators. Unless we can say that he was wrong, and that they were not conspirators, but penitents, we have no right to reverse his order.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yessen v. State“After they were sentenced for 10 to 25 years the penalty of perjury, 1 to 10 years, had no restraining influence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Re Edward J. Carvelo
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.