State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably State v. Tiedt (1947), 160 W. Va. 497 - State v. McAboy (1977)
84 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. Grant · State v. Partlow · State v. Beckner · State v. Clinton · People v. . Hinksman
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The impeaching testimony should be confined to the real and ultimate object of the inquiry, which is the reputation of the witness for truth and veracity. In other words, specific acts of misconduct, without proof of bias or relevance, are collateral, with no probative value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Kardesch
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.