State v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Blue v. State (1944), People v. Wong Loung (1911)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Relationships
Relies on Farrington v. Gallaway · Greenfield v. . People of the State of N.Y. · Commonwealth v. Choate · Dyson v. State · Haley v. State
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Facts which are made up of a great variety of circumstances and a combination of appearances, which, from the infirmity of languages, cannot be properly described, may be shown by witnesses who observed them; and where their observation is such as to justify it, they may state the conclusions of their own minds. In this category may be placed matters involving magnitude or quantities, portions of time, space, motion, gravitation, value, and such as relate to the condition or appearance of persons and things (City of Parsons v. Lindsay, 26 Kan. 426 ; The State v. Folwell, 14 id. 105.) On the same principle, the emotions or feelings of persons, such as grief, joy, hope, despondency, anger, fear, and excitement, may be likewise shown; and hence the testimony objected to was properly admitted. (Lawson’s Expert and Opinion Evidence, rule 64; 2 Best on Ev., § 517.)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Scott““If the form of the oath was defective the attention of the court should have been called to it at the time the oath was taken, so that it might have been corrected. A party cannot sit silently by and take the chances of acquittal, and subsequently, when convicted, make objections to an irregularity in the form of the oath.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Crilly““The writing and memorandum are used, not as evidence, but. to aid the memory. . . . It is only when the memory needs assistance that resort may be had to these aids.” (p. 15.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Coy
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.