Beasley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1991
19 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 Pointer v. Texas · Alford v. United States · Smith v. Illinois · Brasfield v. United States · United States v. Varelli
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The witness’ name and address open countless avenues of in-court examination and out-of-court investigation. To forbid this most rudimentary inquiry at the threshold is effectively to emasculate the right of cross-examination itself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he allowance or disallowance of certain questions on cross-examination normally is left to the sound discretion of the trial judge,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vitek 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.