Acker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2000
18 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 Stocking v. State · Henry v. State · Brewster v. State · Mattingly v. State · Bryant v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any fact tending to impair the credibility of a witness by showing his interest is a material matter regarding which cross-examination is a right and not a mere privilege, and a. denial of cross-examination upon such material matter is reversible error. Bryant v. State (1954), 233 Ind. 274, 278 , 118 N.E.2d 894 ; Henry v. State (1925), 196 Ind. 14, 20 , 146 N.E. 822 ; Marjason v. State (1947), 225 Ind. 652, 654 , 75 N.E.2d 904 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"... A witness is interested to such an extent as will affect his credibility where he expects or hopes for leniency or immunity from punishment for a crime in return for the giving of his testimony ..."”
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.