Crago v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 1973 · most notably Goings v. United States (1967), 37 Cal. 2d 34 - People v. Newson (1951)
5 federal appellate · 22 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 Thomas Ellicott v. William Pearl · Campbell v. State · State v. Steeves · People v. Creeks · Horn 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.
““Such statements, when shown either by the witness himself or by other proof, can, as before pointed out, only be used and regarded as neutralizing and counteracting the. effect of the evidence given by the witness on the witness stand, so as to make that evidence as near as possible as though it had never been given. That being its only function, there must, in order to permit them to be shown, be some prior evidence to neutralize. Where a witness states no evidence against the party calling him, or where he gives only favorable testimony, there is nothing to counteract. The testimony to be neutralized must therefore be prejudicial, detrimental; otherwise the previous statements shown would stand out before the jury, not as offsetting some proof already given, but as substantive evidence of a fact, and to permit this to be done would be to turn to a dangerous purpose * * *. “When the witness Carney in the case at bar stated that he did not remember that the defendant made an admission of the crime on the next morning, he stated no fact prejudicial or detrimental to the state; he simply failed to prove a fact which the state wanted to show. The failure to so remember was no evidence to be neutralized; after attempted neutralization, that is, after the statements were shown, the case would in legal effect stand the same as it was before, namely that he did not remember. Hence the only purpose that could be subserved by reading into the record the previous statements made, and ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.