State v. Polan’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably State v. Brady (1969), State v. Sorrell (1959)
2 district · 77 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. Singleton · State v. Eisenstein · State v. Harris · Turley v. State of Arizona · West 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The majority of courts will allow on the cross-examination of the witness, specific acts of misconduct not sustained by a conviction to be shown which affect veracity. 3 Wigmore Evidence 550, § 983 (3d ed. 1940). But this court has allied Arizona with the minority of states by holding that on cross-examination specific acts of misconduct cannot be shown unless the witness has been convicted of that crime.” 73 Ariz. at 142 , 238 P.2d at 959 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson““ * * * When a defendant has convictions for felonies in his background and takes the stand, he does so at the risk of having his prior record of such convictions laid before the jury. * * * 78 Ariz., at 260 , 278 P.2d at 437 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bowen
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.