State v. Barrow’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably State v. Sparrow (1970), State v. Taylor (1972)
44 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Jackson v. Denno · California v. Curry · State v. Atkinson · State v. Rogers
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Members of the jury, when you come to consider his evidence, the Court instructs you that it is your duty to carefully consider and scrutinize his testimony, he having gone upon the witness stand and testified in his own behalf. So you, the jury, ought to take into consideration the interest which the defendant, William Norman Barrow, has in the result of this action and in your verdict in the case. But the Court instructs you that the law requiring you to scrutinize his testimony does not require that you impeach such evidence or that you reject it, because if you find, after considering the testimony of the defendant in this case, that he has told you the truth, then you will give the same weight and credibility to his testimony as you would to any unbiased or disinterested witness. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barrow“Reasons for the majority view are the rule that trials should be open to the public, the fact that witnesses have an interest in the course of the litigation, and the danger that the rule might be used to unnecessarily delay and obstruct trials. It has been said that the discretion to exclude witnesses is a sound judicial discretion, and that courts should not arbitrarily refuse to enforce the rule, nor should litigants or lawyers be permitted to require it arbitrarily.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barrow“signed a written statement, but it wasn't too many words. I suppose I told Mr. Fesperman that I got three shells, one of which I put in the chamber of the shotgun and the other two I put in my pockets. * * * The first time I shot the man, he was on the porch and I was on the walkway at the steps.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barrow
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.