People v. Hare’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably Illinois Central Railroad v. Smith (1904), State v. Ritz (1922)
33 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 People v. Jennes · Hamilton v. People · Annis v. People · Evans v. People · Hitchcock v. Burgett
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court refused to allow defendant to show the fact that no information had been filed against Billington. Billington was a confessed confederate and an accomplice in the crime charged against McCrone. No conviction could have been had upon this record without his testimony, which shows him to be a man with little conscience, and less regard for truth, if the testimony of the other witnesses is to be believed. It was not only proper, but it was the duty of counsel for the prisoner to place before the jury all the circumstances surrounding the witness upon the stand, as well as any fact which would have any reasonable tendency to affect his credibility; and the fact that he was not informed against for the crime he stood charged with, and that he was treated with the leniency usual in cases of iiiforming accomplices who volunteer to give testimony against their confederates in crime, had its bearing upon his credibility, and we think the circuit judge erred in ruling otherwise. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Simard““* * * It was before the closing of Collins’ saloon, and the People must be held bound by the testimony of Billington, because the only proof of the striking of the fatal blow by Hare is that given by their own witness, upon whose testimony the whole theory for conviction rests.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hobbs““The jury are instructed that in their deliberating, if any one or more of their number, after consulting with their fellow-jurymen, retains a reasonable doubt as to defendant's guilt, the jury should not find him guilty.''”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Curtis
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.