People v. Dye’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 1971 · most notably 31 Cal. 2d 469 - People v. Westek (1948), State v. Taylor (1896)
30 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 Grisby v. Clear Lake Water Works Co. · People v. Devine · Lambert v. . the People · People v. Gonzales · People v. Flahave
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party cannot cross-examine his adversary’s witness upon irrelevant matters for the purpose of eliciting something to be contradicted;- and if such matters are drawn out, the court should stop the inquiry there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. De Lay
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.