State v. Biggers’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Town of Thomaston v. Ives (1968), Granger v. Wisner (1982)
41 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Texas & Pacific Railway Company v. Van Zandt · Texas Employers' Insurance v. McCaslin · Tweed v. Western Union Telegraph Company · Tweed v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Biggers 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are not to be understood as holding that the trial court erred in refusing to permit respondents to prove by the witness, or independently, that the witness was employed by the State Highway Department to make an appraisal of the property, that his appraisal was made for the State Highway Department, or that he was paid by the State Highway Department for making the appraisal. That proof could have no relevancy to the issues in the case. As we view the matter, its tender could only be for the purpose of supporting the credibility of the witness or of creating the impression with the jury that the State was suppressing evidence. It would not be admissible for either purpose. By calling Cowley to testify respondents make him their witness, and once his competency as an expert is established, they have no right to shore up his credibility until he is impeached or his credibility is attacked. [Cases cited.] And a decision not to call as a witness one employed to investigate and evaluate facts and report an expert opinion is not a suppression of evidence. [My italics.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We also approve the holding (of the Court of Civil Appeals) that refusal to permit respondents to have the testimony of the witness included in a bill of exceptions for the purpose of showing the harmful and prejudicial effect of the first ruling was such a denial of the substantial rights of the respondents as to authorize reversal of the trial court’s judgment.” Citing authorities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““And a decision not to call as a witness one employed to investigate and evaluate facts and report an expert opinion is not a suppression of evidence.” ( 360 S.W.2d 516, 518 )”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.