State v. Poolos’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently January 1992 · most notably State v. Kirby (1970), State v. Joyner (1979)
102 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. Hart · State v. . King · State v. Lane · State v. . Leak · Carolina Coach Co. v. Central Motor Lines, Inc.
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The record does not disclose what the reply of the witness would have been if she had been permitted to answer; consequently, it is impossible for us to know whether the ruling was prejudicial to the defendant or not . . . the burden is upon the appellant not only to show error but to show that such error was prejudicial to her. We cannot assume that the answer of the witness would have been in the affirmative ... it is what the witness would have said in response to the question, if she had been permitted to answer, that would enable us to determine whether the appellant was prejudiced by the ruling below.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blue““ ‘Since the record fails to disclose what the witness would have said, we cannot assume that his answer would have been favorable to the defendant. It would be vain to grant a new trial upon the hazard of an uncertain answer by the witness.’ ” And “ ‘The record does not show what the answer of the witness would have been if permitted to answer. Competency of the testimony is not, therefore, presented by the assignments of error.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blue
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.