State v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1984
6 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 Wilkinson v. People · State v. Wakefield · 16 Ala. App. 51 - Jordan v. State · State v. Peters
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Starnes says: Certainly the jurors in such former trial could not be put one by one on the witness stand and had to swear that they believed that in said former trial this appellant told a lie, yet in substance and effect this is put before this jury by proof of the verdict they returned. All these cases lay down the rule that the present jury has no right to consider the result of the former case as establishing the fact that the accused in this case then lied, and all agree that, unless the jury are told in the present case not to base their verdict upon the fact that another jury believed the accused lied when he gave the same testimony before them, the case must be reversed. . . [Id. 338.] [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Naranjo“Thus, we see that the essential elements of perjury are that the accused willfully testified falsely to a material matter in a proceeding before a court having jurisdiction after an oath had been legally administered to him. The results of the trial in which the accused is alleged to have committed perjury is immaterial. [Emphasis added.] [ 87 S.W.2d at 165-6 .] The New Mexico perjury statute reads: Perjury consists of making a false statement under oath or affirmation, material to the issue . . . [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Naranjo
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.