Powell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1994
9 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 Liberto v. State · Swaim v. State · Spence v. State · Anderson v. State · Lawson v. Johnson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In making the contentions that they were entitled to impeach the credibility of Joe Morgan’s testimony on collateral matters appellants recognize that we have ruled to the contrary in Spence v. State, 184 Ark. 139 , 40 S.W.2d 986 (1931), and in Swaim v. State, 257 Ark. 166 , 514 S.W.2d 706 (1974), but suggest that those authorities should be overruled. We decline to overrule those authorities which are based upon Ark. Stat. Ann. § 28-707 (Repl. 1962). Without the restriction on collateral matters a simple trial could be carried on for years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garst v. Cullum
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.