State v. Jefferson’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
73
cited by 73 later decisions
1
states following
April 2016
most recently cited
73 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Golding · Emigrant Savings Bank v. Cam · State v. Glover · State v. Adams
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a case [would be] narrowed to the [issue of] credibility of [witnesses] ... in those circumstances there [is] greater, not less, compelling reason for exploring all avenues which would shed light on which of the ... witnesses [is] to be believed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.