Billingslea v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1972
16 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 Acklen's v. Hickman · Phœnix Insurance v. Moog
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it clear that it was not permissible to call out from the'witness Hutchings what testimony he had given before the grand jury. A party on trial for a public offense has the constitutional right ‘to be confronted by the witnesses against him.’ The right of cross-examination, is scarcely less sacred than this: and parties whose conduct is undergoing investigation before a grand jury have no right to be present, and are not permitted to be represented before that body. It is a grand inquest, but it is secret, and ex parte.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.