State v. Sample’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
3
states following
July 2000
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rideout v. United States · State v. Wood · State v. Harris · State v. Siems · State v. Billingsley
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ross-examination of character witnesses ought to be done in good faith, and the crimes inquired about ought not to be apocryphal, existing along [sic] in the fertile fancy of a public prosecutor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Pratt
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.