State v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1998
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 Stover v. . People of the State of N.Y. · State v. Clinton · State v. Patterson · State v. Anderson · State v. Porter
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.
““Under these statutory provisions it is clear that a defendant who offers himself as a witness can not be cross-examined except as to such matters as may be referred to by him in his examination in chief, and it would seem to follow necessarily from this, that the comments on his evidence should be confined to such matters as he testified about in his examination in chief and cross-examination. If a cross-examination is limited only to such matters as the witness testified about in chief, upon wh'at principle can the right be maintained to comment in argument upon matters about which a cross-examination under the statute would not have been allowed? The statute having conferred the right upon such a defendant when he takes the stand to testify only in regard to such matters as he may choose, this right of choice would in effect be taken away by a ruling which would justify comments to be made, and unfavorable inferences to be drawn from what he might have testified about, but about which he did not testify. Under this statute the defendant has two options, the first of which is that he may elect either to go on the stand or not, as a witness; and second, when he elects to go on the stand he may testify only to such matters as he may choose. It is clear that, under the statute, if he elects not to go on the stand, the fact that he did not testify at all could ‘neither be construed’ to affect his innocence or guilt, nor be referred to by any attorney in the case. If the statute”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Guinn
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.