State v. Archer’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Turnbow (1960), Mascarenas v. State (1969)
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 In re Quarles · Vogel v. Gruaz · Attorney General v. Tufts · Arnstein v. United States · Worthington v. Scribner
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What we are determining is whether a witness for the state is subject to cross-examination for the purpose of probing his conscience and testing his memory and reliability by questions as to what he communicated to the district attorney in regard to the facts in the case, and we hold that it can be done.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Halsey
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.