State v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
October 1986
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hildreth v. Key · Schonlau v. Terminal Railroad Assn. of St. Louis · State v. Jones · State v. Berry · State v. Turnbough
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order for contradictions and inconsistencies in a party’s testimony to preclude his recovery as a matter of law they must be diametrically opposed to one another with respect to some vital question in the case [citation]; so contradictory and without explanation as to preclude reliance thereon [citation]; so self-contradictory that they rob the testimony of all probative force, [citation]; and so glaring as to conclusively show that the party testified untruthfully one way or the other, [citation]. Otherwise the inconsistencies in the plaintiff’s testimony are for the jury to resolve.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gibson
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.