Jaynes v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 1972 · most notably Stull v. People (1959), Mack v. State (1932)
35 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Nelson v. Iverson · Barron v. Eldredge · Warford v. People · Ryan v. People · Mullen v. McKim
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When such testimony is received the trial judge should then limit it to the purpose for which it is admitted. Perhaps we have never determined that a failure to so limit it when not requested by the defendant is reversible error, but we have intimated in Warford v. The People [ 43 Colo. 107 ] that this course should be pursued by trial courts. We also think that when evidence of the character under consideration is offered by the district attorney, good practice requires that he should state the purpose for which it is offered, and that the trial judge in the instructions given, when requested by the defendant, should instruct the jury on the subject of the purpose for which they may consider such testimony. These precautions should be observed, because of the fact, as above indicated, that such evidence tends to create a prejudice in the minds of the jury; but of this he will not be permitted to complain if the evidence is competent, and his rights are safeguarded in the manner we have suggested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reppin v. People“To this rule, however, there are exceptions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reppin v. People
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.