State v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Dufour v. Mississippi (1985), State v. McMillin (1990)
4 federal appellate · 54 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Enmund v. Florida · Pulley v. Harris · Pesce v. United States
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, the state may not impeach its own witness. The rule is equally applicable to any party to a case, whether civil or criminal. A witness may be impeached as hostile, however if two requirements are met. First, the witness must, by reason of answers which are inconsistent with previous statements, surprise the party propounding the questions. Second, the answers as given must state facts which in effect make the witness a witness for the other side, (citations omitted)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he witness' testimony would have shown more than a previous instance of good conduct. It would have shown the [Grand Jury Association's] opinion of [petitioner's] `good citizenship' in light of that conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Byrd v. Armontrout“defendant may not complain of prejudice which his own conduct created”), citing, State v. Byrd, 676 S.W.2d 494, 500 (Mo. banc 1984). See also Hilton v. Crouch, 627 S.W.2d 99, 102 (Mo.App. S.D. 1982) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mayes
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.