Wallace v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 200 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 210 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Alford v. United States (1931), 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State (1959)
8 federal appellate · 200 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 State v. Lapage · People v. . Webster · State v. Taylor · Roberson v. State · Adams 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 210 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"For the purpose of discrediting a witness, a wide range of cross-examination is permitted, as a matter of right, in regard to his motives, interest, or animus, as connected with the cause or with the parties thereto, upon which matters he may be contradicted by other evidence, * * *."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kirkland v. State · Nelson v. State““[I]t is of great importance to the prisoner that the sentence should be definite and certain, so as to advise him and the officer charged with its execution of the time of its commencement and termination, without' being required to inspect the records of another court or the record of another case.” Wallace v. State, Fla.1899, 41 Fla. 547 , 26 So. 713 , at page 725.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bush v. State“The rules which should govern the trial court in exercising its discretion in allowing or disallowing inquiries into collateral matters to affect credibility do not authorize any question to be put for the sole purpose of disgracing the witness. The court should disallow all inquiries into collateral matters which do not tend to affect credibility.”
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.