State v. Kain’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1992 · most notably State v. Yowell (1974), State v. Brookshire (1962)
27 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. Williams · State v. Grant · State v. Taylor · State v. Fairlamb · State v. Clinton
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.
“Our general rule as to reputation witnesses is well stated in State v. Kain, Mo., 330 S.W.2d 842, 846 [8]: ‘A person possessing the necessary testimonial qualifications, that is, acquaintance with the general reputation of the witness in the neighborhood or among the people with whom the witness associates for the character trait in question, may testify concerning such reputation.’ (citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Foulk
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.