State v. Colton’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
215 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably State v. Hines (1998), Gaudio v. Griffin Health Services Corp. (1999)
215 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 Davis v. Alaska · Douglas v. Alabama · Greene v. McElroy · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · State v. Miller
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Extrinsic evidence may be admitted ... if the subject matter of the testimony is not collateral, that is, if it is relevant to a material issue in the case apart from its tendency to contradict the witness .... Evidence tending to show the motive, bias or interest of an important witness is never collateral or irrelevant .... It may be ... the very key to an intelligent appraisal of the testimony of the [witness].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although it is within the trial court's discretion to determine the extent of cross-examination and the admissibility of evidence, the preclusion of sufficient inquiry into a particular matter tending to show motive, bias and interest may result in a violation of the constitutional requirements [of the confrontation clause] of the sixth amendment....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Evidence tending to show the motive, bias or interest of an important witness is never collateral or irrelevant. It may be ... the very key to an intelligent appraisal of the testimony of the [witness].”
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.