People v. Seit’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2011
4 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, not all inconsistencies developed on cross-examination imply that a witness’ testimony is fabricated. Questions designed to demonstrate that the testimony is the product of confusion or mistake do not charge fabrication. The implication that the testimony was recently fabricated arises only if it appears that the cross-examiner believes and wants the jury to believe that the witness is testifying falsely to “meet the exigencies of the case.” When the witness’ testimony has been attacked for that purpose, the witness may be permitted to show that he or she made similar statements at some earlier time when free from the alleged bias. The prior consistent statements antedating the motive to fabricate are not introduced to prove or disprove the facts in issue, but to rehabilitate the credibility of the witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fulton
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.