State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1962 · most notably State v. Brookshire (1962), State v. Fairlamb (1894)
26 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 State v. Kring · State v. Young · State v. Cook · State v. Owens
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it is an unnecessary reflection upon jurors to say that they are so ignorant that they do not understand that each juror must be convinced of defendant’s guilt. So universally is this conceded, that in the whole range of criminal trials in this state, no one has ever before thought it necessary to embody the idea in an instruction. And while no harm could possibly come from giving it, we do not think its refusal could possibly have prejudiced the defendant’s case. The defendant could have polled the jury and ascertained exactly how each one stood on this question. The cause cannot be reversed for this action of the court in refusing it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Flory
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.