State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
179 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Hines (1998), State v. Montgomery (2000)
179 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Neil v. Biggers · Sandstrom v. Montana · State v. Golding · Doerr v. Doerr
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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In view of [the abandonment of the voucher rule] ... [i]f a witness is available, he is equally available to both sides. If a witness has information favorable to one side, why shouldn't that side call that witness and bring out that information instead of relying on a negative inference based on ignorance that such a witness might have some unspecified information that might be unfavorable to the other party?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]n cases in which a witness is equally available to both parties, there is no logical basis for allowing an inference to be drawn from one party's failure to call that witness when the other party could have just as easily called that same witness. This is especially so because we have abandoned the voucher rule-that is, the common law rule that one could not impeach the credibility of his own witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“of the defendant from the nose back to the right side, and that the defendant was not then wearing anything that covered his face. Williams further testified that he saw”
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.