Webb v. Oxley’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Tate v. State (1964), State v. McCray (1972)
27 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 Kennedy v. Crouch · Kujawa v. Baltimore Transit Co. · Grier v. Rosenberg · Rippon v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Ashman v. Schecter
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) that the trial court erroneously sustained objections to appellants’ attempt to prove negligence ... by asking appellee if he had ever read certain legal textbooks; (3) that the trial court erred by demonstrating prejudicial bias (a) in refusing to allow testimony by Mr. Webb concerning “the various sources that refused assistance in the location of lawyers qualified to serve as counsel or expert witness or other aid in this case”; (b) in asking Mr. Webb, in the manner of “stern cross-examination”, certain questions ... and in ignoring the contention of the Webbs ...; (c) in excluding a certain exhibit which appellant sought to introduce____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the circumstances, a great deal of guidance on the part of the trial judge was necessitated by the lack of skill of appellants in presenting their own case, in order that the issues could be fairly delineated and considerable immaterial and irrelevant material excluded____ If any of the judge’s remarks and questions were prejudicial (which is not apparent), the failure of appellants to object to the questions or move for a mistrial constituted a waiver, and this matter cannot be reviewed on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.