Polhemus v. Heiman’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1942
15 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 Boyce v. California Stage Co. · Polhemus v. Heiman
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this state the affidavits of jurymen cannot be received to impeach or defeat their verdict . . . The only exceptions to this rule are those in which the legislature has by express enactment authorized such attack upon the verdict by those who rendered it;””
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.