Bridges v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 1986 · most notably Ellis v. State (1943), Vaughn v. State (1938)
49 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 Anderson v. State · American Ry. Express Co. v. Reid · Mitchell v. State · Humes v. O'Bryan & Washington · Nelson v. Iverson
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.
“in order that the faculties of the mind may be put in motion, and the memory aided by the train of ideas which such circumstances would be likely to suggest with reference to the subject-matter of inquiry. . . . The rule, however, is satisfied, when the attention of the witness is called with reasonable certainty to the subject of the previous declarations.”
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.