Waller v. Sloan’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1947
9 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. Barker · Langford v. Issenhuth · Aphoresmenos v. McIntosh
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What does the statute mean in giving' ‘the right to cross-examine such witness the same as if he were called by the opposite party.’ The so-called ‘orthodox rule,’ extending the right of cross-examination to all points material to issues involved, and not limiting it to matters brought out on direct-examination, has ever prevailed in this State. People v. Barker, 60 Mich. 277 ( 1 Am. St. Rep. 501 ), and cases there cited. The legislature was aware of this rule and employed the term ‘cross-examine’ advisedly. It must be remembered in considering cases upon the right to cross-examine that the Michigan rule does not prevail in a majority of the States.””
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.