People v. PAILLE 2’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2018
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“duty to pass judgment not only on the weight and competency of the evidence, but also the credibility of the witnesses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he Court generally gives great weight to the findings of fact of the trial judge. The trial court is our arena for the test of truth. There the contesting parties and their witnesses appear face to face in flesh and blood with weight and size and demeanor under the eye of the trial judge. He sees the averted glance, marks the hesitation, detects the note of hysteria in the voice of a witness whose words may be calculated to deceive. The cold words on a printed page show none of these essentials to the search for fact. [ Hartka v. Hartka, 346 Mich. 453, 455 , 78 N.W.2d 133 (1956) ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Richardson“the judge who hears the testimony has the distinct advantage over the appellate judge, who must form judgment solely from the printed words.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.