State v. Tilley’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably State v. Gibbs (1993), State v. Bindyke (1975)
42 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 Matheny v. Central Motor Lines, Inc. · State v. . Reddick · State v. Bennett · State v. Scarborough · State v. . Bagley
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no attempt to discredit the witness. A party may prove that the fact is not as it is stated to be by one of his witnesses; for that is merely shewing a mistake, to which the best of men are liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tilley“The other witnesses, in such case, are not called to discredit the first, but the impeachment is incidental and consequential only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tilley
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.