Barnard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1981
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.
Relationships
Relies on People v. McDonald
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.
““After she had been admitted to. be sworn and testify, the credit due to her testimony was to be tested by the ordinary rules by which the credit of testimony is tried. Her age, her intelligence, her manner on the stand, her contradictions, and all the incidents which go to test and determine the credit due to witnesses were applicable to her testimony. It could not be arbitrarily rejected. It was to be weighed by the jury and given such weight as the jury deemed it justly entitled to.””
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.