State v. Houser’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Crawford v. Washington (2004), Davis v. Washington (2006)
23 state decisions — followed in 16 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 State v. McO'Blenis · Jordan v. State · McKeen v. Harwood
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But we find further, that not only is there no authority in England which excludes the testimony of a deceased witness, under the circumstances accruing in the case of McO'Blenis, but none is to be found in this country.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harp“some peculiar importance was attached to the proceedings of this officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harp
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.