State v. Kessler’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1957
12 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 State v. Fuller · White v. Chicago, M. & P. S. Ry. Co. · State v. De Lea · State v. Paisley · State v. Mott
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * it is the province of the jury to pass upon the weight of the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses, uninfluenced by any suggestion from the court as to the relative weight of the testimony of the different witnesses (State v. Paisley, 36 Mont. 237 , 92 Pac. 566 ). So long as judges are not permitted to comment on the weight of the evidence, this must be the rule.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.