Bridges v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Smith (1985), 34 Wis. 2d 278 - Whitty v. State (1967)
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Downs v. Swann · People v. Walters · Hack v. State · Parke v. State · 24 App. D.C. 417 - Shaffer v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The mother’s testimony as to the statement of those particulars by Sharon was clearly admissible under the rule that where the person ravished is very young, testimony as to the particulars of such statements by her is admissible. Hannon v. State, 70 Wis. 448, 451, 452 , 36 N. W. 1 ; Bannen v. State, 115 Wis. 317, 329 , 91 N. W. 107 , 91 N. W. 965 ; Smits v. State, 145 Wis. 601, 605, 606 , 130 N. W. 525 .” 6”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no question that where a particular state of mind of a person is a relevant fact, declarations which indicate its existence are admissible . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as a physical invasion it amounts to almost nothing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.