Mathis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Buckley v. State (2002), Long v. State (1984)
21 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 United States v. Scavo · McAlister v. State · John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Dutton · Randall v. State · Brown v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On cross-examination on collateral issues a cross-examiner is bound by the answers he receives from the witness and may not impeach his testimony by the introduction of contradictory evidence. Powell v. State, 260 Ark. 381 , 540 S.W. 2d 1 (1976); Odom v. State, 259 Ark. 429 , 533 S.W. 2d 514 (1976). The questions asked of Ms. Dennis were collateral to the issue of the trial. The Arkansas Supreme Court set out the test for determining collateral issues in McAlister v. State, 99 Ark. 604 , 139 S.W. 684 (1911). This was relied upon in Randall v. State, 239 Ark. 312 , 389 S.W. 2d 229 (1965). This determination to be made is whether the cross-examining party would be entitled to prove the issue as part of his case. The determination of whether Ms. Dennis was a drug addict was not an issue would would have been an integral part of the appellant’s case. See also, Brown v. State, 259 Ark. 464 , 534 S.W. 2d 207 (1976)....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vanderpool v. State“Testimony in the form of an opinion or inference otherwise admissible is not objectionable because it embraces an ultimate issue to be decided by the trier of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Long v. State“The appellant could, however, permit the presiding judge to consider both possible sentencing statutes and impose the punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. State
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.