Prince v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 1983 · most notably Crawford v. State (1895), Coghill v. Kennedy (1898)
56 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 South & North Ala. Railroad v. McLendon · Gassenheimer v. State · Levison v. State · Pate v. State · Pellum v. State
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““State whether the company you are working for is taking any interest in the prosecution of the defendant.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Reeves v. State · Johnson v. State“The proof exacted of the defendant in this charge to sustain the alibi, is too high, in that it omitted the word 'reasonable.' If the jury were reasonably satisfied, from the evidence, that the defendant was elsewhere, and not at the place where the offense was committed, at the time it was committed, the burden cast upon him by the law is fully met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the burden of proof is on the defendant to establish his alibi, and that it must be done to your satisfaction.”
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.