State v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 1998 · most notably State v. Ray (1971), State v. Grey (1971)
2 federal appellate · 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 State v. Walker · State v. Labat · State v. Childers · State v. Scott · State v. Reed
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... taken by surprise by the testimony of such witness, or ... the witness show hostility toward him ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * jn or¿er t0 minimize the harm which may ensue from the reception of hearsay when used as impeaching evidence, it is necessary to caution the jury as to the limited purpose for which it may be considered before it hears such evidence, rather than to include it later in an instruction which the jury will have to apply in retrospect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ray
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.