State v. Hawthorne’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 47 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Montgomery (1971), State v. Sands (1978)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Patterson v. Medberry · Stoner v. California · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Luck v. United States · State v. Jackson
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Neither parties nor other persons who have an interest in the event of an action or proceeding shall be excluded; nor those who have been convicted of crime; . . . although in every case the credibility of the witness may be drawn in question, as now provided by law, but the conviction of any person for any crime, may be shown for the purpose of affecting the credibility of such witness; and the fact of such conviction may be proved like any other fact not of record; either by the witness himself (who shall be compelled to testify thereto), or by any other person cognizant of such conviction, as impeaching testimony or by any other competent testimony.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It seems unlikely that when the Legislature enacted the 1874 revision it had any notion at all of restricting the court’s discretionary powers on matters of remoteness and the like. [49 N. J. at 151]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sands
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.