State v. Horton’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably Lovely v. United States (1948), State v. Tiedt (1947)
5 federal appellate · 51 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. Goodale · State v. Newcomb · State v. Conway · State v. Teeter · State v. Darling
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defendant had the legal right to bring to the attention of the jury any fact which would show malice or ill will against him on the part of any witness who testified on behalf of the [S]tate for the purpose of affecting the credibility of such witness and the weight to be given to his or her testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. JLS“Facts or circumstances which tend to show the motive or bias of any witness who has testified, or the motive of the prosecutrix in making the charge, or to affect her credibility, are admissible; but such evidence is generally confined to bias or motive of one who has testified as a witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. JLS“the person having custody or control of such child is the real prosecutor or prosecutrix, and that charges of this character are sometimes [brought] for ulterior purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. JLS
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.