Lenox v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1942
17 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where, however, the witness is not called to impair but *to support credit, the ground is different. Not to have been talked about at all in regard to integrity is. not to have been talked against, and it is not objectionable to show that the veracity of the witness has not been questioned. “The fact that a person’s truthfulness has never been the subject of controversy is according to general observation and experience, very cogent evidence to prove him worthy of credit, and where those who would be likely to know if it had been the subject of criticism testify they have no knowledge that it has been, the evidence is proper as conducive to the effect that such person could not have, borne the' bad reputation imputed. People v. Davis, 21 Wend. (N. Y.) 309; Gandolfo v. The State, 11 Ohio St. 114 ; State v. Lee, 22 Minn. 407 ( 21 Am. Rep. 769 ).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thayer v. Thayer · People v. Woods
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.