People v. Sprague’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 1973 · most notably People v. Majors (1884), People v. Flynn (1887)
2 federal appellate · 49 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 People v. Strong
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The maxim, ‘fulsus in uno, falsus in omnibus/ is not to be construed as authorizing a Court to charge that if a witness perjures himseif in respect to one or more particulars, the jury must reject all his testimony.” People v. Sprague, 53 Cal. 491, 494 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A witness false in one part of his testimony is to be distrusted in 'Others.””
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.