Sylvester v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
1 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably McPherson v. State (1916), Kawamura v. State (1984)
1 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Spicer v. State · Dupree v. State · Hall v. State · Paris v. State · Parsons 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“• “An infamous crime was regarded as comprehending treason, felony, and the crimen falsi.” m”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[I]t is the nature of the crime, and not the magnitude of the punishment, which constitutes a blemish on the moral character, and thereby incapacitates to testify by rendering infamous. The test seems to be, 'whether the crime shows such depravity in the perpetrator , or such a disposition to pervert public justice in the courts, as creates a violent presumption against his truthfulness under oath .' "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““At common law persons convicted of crimes, which, are in themselves infamous, were excluded from being a witness.””
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.