Alexander v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Howard v. State (2006), National Bank of Commerce v. HCA Health Services of Midwest, Inc. (1990)
26 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 Callahan v. Farm Equipment, Inc. · Missouri Pac. R.R. Co., Thompson v. Sullivan
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here counsel repeatedly ignored the trial court’s warnings concerning leading questions. The court conceded it could not or would not take action beyond admonishment. Only once did it instruct the witness not to respond. If counsel will not comply with the trial court’s requests, then some sanction, with teeth, must be used against him. We are certain the leading would have stopped had the trial court granted appellants’ motion to preclude further inquiry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There are limits to everything and when counsel cannot or will not abide by the rules of evidence and of the trial court, and the trial court cannot stop the violations, we have to. The contention on appeal is that although not one instance of counsel’s conduct would be cause for reversal, all of the violations combined to deny the appellant a fair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ronning 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.