Reynolds v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2016
2 federal appellate · 6 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 2 Okla. Crim. 362 - Sturgis v. State · 84 Okla. Crim. 138 - Jackson v. State · 35 Okla. Crim. 5 - Morris v. State · Ramsey v. State · Withers v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule of law controlling a party’s impeachment of its own witness is well settled in Oklahoma. In Sturgis v. State, 2 Okl.Cr. 362 , 102 P. 57 (1909), we held that surprise is a valid justification for impeachment of one’s own witness. There is, however, a limitation. The party presenting the witness must not only be surprised at the testimony, but also injured by it. See Sturgis v. State, supra, and Mackey v. State, Okl.Cr., 526 P.2d 1161 (1974). Under these conditions, a party may offer in evidence previous statements of such witnesses which contradict the injurious portions of their testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sims v. State“an act which creates a situation of unreasonable risk and probability of death or great bodily harm to another and which demonstrates a conscious disregard for the safety of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cipriano v. State“the appellant engaged in drunken horseplay and fired a pistol into the air ... The third time he fired the pistol his wife was struck and killed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cipriano v. State
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.