State v. Whelan’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Merrill (1978), State v. Hogan (1973)
48 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 State v. Spreigl · J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · State v. Norgaard · State Ex Rel. Dugal v. Tahash · State v. Reichenberger
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Determination of a person’s competency as a witness is within the sound discretion of the trial court and is ordinarily made by such preliminary examination of the proposed witness as may be deemed necessary by the court. If it appears from the examination that the witness understands the obligation of an oath and is capable of correctly narrating the facts to which his testimony relates, the witness is competent in fact and should be permitted to testify.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Folley · State v. Johnson“[t]he theory that inquiry into part of a conversation opens the door for the admission of all the conversation may be an appropriate theory in some instances because admission of a part of some conversations taken out of context may require that all the conversation be gone into to give the court and jury a correct understanding of the facts. It is not a rule that should be applied in all cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mills“permits, but does not require, the trial court in the exercise of its discretion to allow depositions of witnesses to be taken”
1 later decision 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.