People v. Eckman’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1964
19 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 People v. Frank · People v. Cronin · Sill v. Reese · People v. Johnson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The second ground of error assigned by appellant is the refusal of the court to allow in evidence — as proof tending to show the good character of the defendant — a certificate of the discharge of the defendant from the United States army for disability, which also certified his character to be good. It does not appear what particular traits of character were certified to in the document excluded; but we do not know of any rule which — upon the general issue of character — allows the introduction of written declarations, official or otherwise, made by third parties out of court. We think, therefore, that this point is not tenable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shaw
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.