State v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably State v. Brown (1984), State v. Irick (1977)
36 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 Bailey v. North Carolina Railroad · Brown v. . Montgomery Ward Co. · State v. . Gentry · State v. . Dilliard · Randle Ex Rel. Love v. Grady
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The court admitted the testimony of Lee as to the extrajudicial statements of Canady for the consideration of the jury `upon the matter of the delay in the issuance of the warrants' and not for the purpose of establishing the truth of any matter asserted by Canady. As has been pointed out, it was proper for the prosecution to show in explanation of the evidence elicited by defendants on cross-examination of the State's witnesses that the delay in the issuance of the warrants was occasioned by some reason other than a consciousness of the weakness of the State's case on the part of its witnesses. The evidence objected to consisted of two parts: One, as to the state of Lee's mind, which certainly had a tendency to establish that the reason for his delay in commencing the prosecution was inconsistent with any consciousness of the weakness of the State's case on his part; and the other, as to the extrajudicial utterances made by Canady to Lee, which certainly had a relevancy to show the inducing cause of Lee's state of mind. The testimony was not concerned in any degree with the truth or falsity of any matter asserted by Canady in his unsworn statements. Hence, its probative force depended solely on the competency and credibility of Lee, the witness by whom it was produced. "The court rightly admitted the evidence in question for the specific purpose for which it was offered under the evidential rule that `whenever an utterance is offered to evidence the state of mind which ensu”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Bonebrake
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.