State v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Oldaker v. Peters (1991), State v. Foster (1946)
71 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 Cummings v. The State of Missouri · State v. Shawley · State v. Gadwood · State v. Malone · State v. Bagby
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think there was no reversible error in the trial court’s ruling, in view of the decisions in this state ... Of these, the Littig case [Littig v. Urbauer-Atwood Heating Co., 292 Mo. 226 , 237 S.W. 779 (1922)] sustains the court’s ruling that the entire competent part of the transcript bearing on the point under inquiry should be read by the impeaching party. But nearly all the later cases cited tend to support appellant’s contention; since they hold the impeaching party need read only such portion of the document as tends to impeach the witness, leaving it to the opposing party to read the remainder insofar as it may tend to rehabilitate the witness. And the Peppers case only holds the document should be shown to the witness if he asks to see it; declaring the practice condemned in the Littig case merely was garbling the facts, and failure of the cross-examiner to read the questions and answers about which he was inquiring.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oldaker v. Peters“The word `extension' ordinarily implies the existence of something to be extended. Thus in the Scott and Paul cases, just cited in the margin, this court held a trial court could not extend the time for filing a bill of exceptions beyond the time already fixed, if such extension was granted after expiration of the time first limited. The Scott case said: "The word "extended”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Read v. Miller“within ten days after the return of the verdict: Provided * * * the court may extend the time for filing such motion for an additional period of thirty (30) days: provided further, the court shall have no power to make another or further extension of the time for filing said motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clark
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.