Ketcham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 1993 · most notably Walker v. State (1970), State v. Boodry (1964)
44 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 Woods v. State · Polson v. State · Messel v. State · Soto v. Territory of Arizona · Thompson 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the small child could tell the story to her mother, she could have told it on the witness stand to the jury, where it could [have been] subjected to the usual test of credibility. It is no answer to say she was too young to be a witness. If such be true, then the credibility of such testimony was not enhanced by having it presented second-handed to the jury by another person.” Id. at 113 , 162 N.E.2d at 250 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Paster · Matthews v. State
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.