State v. Eiland’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2013
12 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 Housing Authority of New Haven v. Dorsey · State v. Anderson · State v. Spinks · State v. Clough · State v. Williams
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Inconsistencies such as these affect the weight, not the admissibility or sufficiency, of the evidence. It is for the jury to determine whether the witness’ testimony at trial is credible in the light of the inconsistencies. State v. Spinks, 344 Mo. 105 , 125 S.W.2d 60 (1939); State v. Austin, 496 S.W.2d 799 (Mo. banc 1973), cert. den. 414 U.S. 1044 , 94 S.Ct. 549 ,- 38 L.Ed.2d 336 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ziegler““If, as a matter of law, the court can declare that there is an entire absence of evidence upon which to support a verdict of guilty of a particular offense (whether it be murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, or manslaughter), the court should not instruct thereon.” (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Porter
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.