State v. Hedrick’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1997
13 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 State v. Hicks · State v. Beal · State v. . Lea · State v. Davenport · State v. . Davenport
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence offered by the [plaintiff], if believed by the jury, may have recast [defendant’s] . . . evidence in such light as to have diluted its probative force before the jury .... Obviously, . . . the jury in its composite wisdom, after hearing the testimony and observing the demeanor of the witnesses, disbelieved the defendant's] evidence and resolved the issues against [it]. The record amply sustains the [decision] ....”
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.