Starnes v. Andre’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1994
13 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 Broomfield v. Broomfield · Cook v. Jeffett · Jeffett v. Cook · Fordyce v. McCants · Cady v. Guess
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Failure of a party to an action to testify as to facts peculiarly within his knowledge is a circumstance which may be looked upon with suspicion by the trier of the facts. Fordyce v. McCants, 55 Ark. 384 , 18 S.W. 371 ; Broomfield v. Broomfield, 242 Ark. 355 , 413 S.W. 2d 657 . His failure to testify gives rise to the presumption that his statements would have been against his interest. Cady v. Guess, 197 Ark. 611 , 124 S.W. 2d 213 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pettijohn v. Smith
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.