Eldridge v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1998 · most notably Wallace v. State (1899), Roberson v. State (1898)
1 district · 30 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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proof must go further and establish either that the mind of the witness was impaired generally by the use of it, or at least under the influence of the opiate at the time the testimony was taken. The testimony here offered by the State falls short of this test and should have been excluded. There was no testimony to show that the witness ... was under the influence of morphine either at the trial or at the time of the event about which he testified, nor is it shown that his mind was impaired generally by the use of morphine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The use of opium cannot be introduced to impair credit, unless it be shown that the witness was under the influence of opium when examined or when the litigated event occurred."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelson 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.