Selover v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 1976 · most notably Wild v. Rarig (1975), London Guarantee & Accident Co. v. Woelfle (1936)
1 federal appellate · 38 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 Campbell v. State · Smith v. Briscoe · Eggleston v. Boardman · Hemingway v. Garth · Johnson v. Leggett
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We feel confident that well-recognized reasons and principles of the law of evidence support the proposition that, at least in the discretion of the Trial court, such evidence [contradictory statements] is admissible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Elco
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.