State v. Mor’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1974
10 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 Stokes v. . People of the State of N.Y.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law is firmly settled that where a party has the right, for the purpose of impairing the credit of a witness as to collateral matters, to ask questions as to those collateral matters, but having asked and obtained answers, he must abide by the answers given; other witnesses could not be called to prove such answers untrue. Stokes v. People, 53 N.Y. 164 , 13 Am. Rep. 492 . "In 1 Greenleaf Evid. ( Ed. 1896) Sec. 449, the learned author enunciates the legal rule to be as follows: `But it is a well-settled rule that a witness cannot be cross-examined as to any fact which is collateral and irrelevant to the issue, merely for the purpose of contradicting him by other evidence, if he should deny it, thereby to discredit his testimony. And if a question is put to a witness which is collateral or irrelevant to the issue, his answer cannot be contradicted by the party who asked the question; but it is conclusive against him.' The author cites numerous American and English cases in support of the text.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law is firmly settled that where a party has the right, for the purpose of impairing the credit of a witness as to collateral matters, to ask questions as to those collateral matters, but having asked and obtained answers, he must abide by the answers given; other witnesses could not be called to prove such answers untrue. Stokes v. People, 53 N.Y. 164 , 13 Am. Rep. 492 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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