State v. Goodbier’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1966
7 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.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Duncan
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The second bill is to the exclusion of the testimony of a witness for the defense, offered, as stated in the brief, to contradict the explanation of one of the state’s witnesses for contradictory statements, i. e. of his testimony on the stand. The witness whose statements out of court were proposed to be given in evidence had admitted the contradictions, on his attention having been called to the subject. The rule is that, if the witness admits on the stand the contradictions imputed to him, the defense is under no necessity to sustain the contradictions, and is not permitted to offer the sustaining proof. Wharton Crim. Evidence, Sec. 483; Rapalge, Sec. 404. The right of the party to offer proof of contradictory statements of a witness is restricted, and ceases altogether when the contradictions are admitted. * * * ” (Italics here and elsewhere are ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jackson
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.