State v. Damico’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 1997
21 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 Mellor v. United States · State v. Stevens · State v. Moore · State v. Moore. · State v. Edwards
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While at common law a wife was incompetent to testify against her husband that complete legal disqualification was removed by the enactment of the statute, now § 546.260, RSMo 1969 ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shafer · State v. Brown“The modern tendency is to relax the old rules of incompetency of witnesses, [and] generally ... to the extent indicated in this opinion, the broad statements in certain cases to the effect that in no event may a wife testify against her husband in a criminal case, or testify without his consent, should no longer be followed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shafer
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.