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← 411 A.2d 396 - State v. Farrington

State v. Farrington’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
February 2002
most recently cited

3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 2002

3 state decisions

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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 Weiler v. United States · United States v. Wood · State v. Doughty · People v. Roubus · State v. Rogers

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Section 451(3) [perjury] and Section 452(2) [false swearing] of the Criminal Code manifest the retention of the traditional rule that the essential element of the falsity of the statements made by defendant under oath must be proved by more than circumstantial evidence. There must be in addition to any such corroborating circumstantial evidence at least one witness who provides direct positive evidence of such facts as render defendant’s statement of the facts a false statement.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Anthoine
  2. “A person is guilty of false swearing if ... he makes a false statement under oath or affirmation or swears or affirms the truth of such a statement previously made and he does not believe the statement to be true, provided ... the statement is one which is required by law to be sworn or affirmed before a notary or other person authorized to administer oaths ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Anthoine

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.