Garner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1977
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Applying the infallible test laid down by this court, in the elaborate and exhaustive opinion delivered in the case of Williams v. State, 73 Miss. 820 ( 19 So. 826 ), the error in'admitting this evidence of F'arnham is palpable. ‘ The test of whether a fact inquired of in cross-examination is collateral is this: Would the cross-examining party be entitled to prove it as a part of his. case, tending to establish his plea?’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. State
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.