Stone v. Earp’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1994 · most notably State v. Valdez (1962), 96 Wash. 2d 902 - State v. Renfro (1982)
28 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We are not unmindful of the fact that at the direction of the trial court, the parties agreed to submit to the tests, but whether by voluntary agreement, court direction, or coercion, the results of such tests do not attain the stature of competent evidence.. . ." 50 N.W.2d at 174 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In People v. Becker, 300 Mich. 562 , 2 N.W.2d 503 , 139 A.L.R. 1171 (1942) we held it was not error to refuse admission in evidence of the result of such tests for the reason that such tests used in ascertaining the truthfulness of a witness are still too much in the experimental field for courts to approve of their general use. We find no reason why a different rule should be followed in civil cases than in criminal cases."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hames v. Anderson“I am not going to decide this case until your clients take a lie-detector test.”
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.