State v. Caston’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2018
9 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 Winn v. Modern Woodmen
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘It is widely recognized that evidence of an intoxicated condition at the time of the matters about which the witness has testified is admissible to affect the credi bility of Ms testimony, such evidence being properly elicited either by the independent testimony of another witness, or by cross-examination of the witness sought to be impeached. Although some of the courts applying this principle are unwilling to let the introduction of such testimony be denominated technically as ‘impeachment,’ the practical effect of its application is the same, as is its underlying rationale, which is that it is always proper to show matters affecting the condition of the witness at the time of the matters testified to, as affecting his ability to observe or recollect them. ’ The foregoing is the rule in Missouri. ... The intoxication of a witness as of the time the events took place which are the subject of the witness’s testimony is not a collateral issue but bears directly upon the ability of the witness to accurately describe those events.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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