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← 105 Nev. 767 - Barron v. State

Barron v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

54
cited by 54 later decisions
4
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Middleton v. State (1998), Guy v. State (1992)

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions

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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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Griffin v. California · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Cupp v. Naughten · United States v. Hasting

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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[i]t suggests to the jury that it was the defendant's burden to produce proof by explaining the absence of witnesses or evidence. This implication is clearly inaccurate.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Mainaaupo · Whitney v. State
  2. “if a proffered instruction misstates the law or is adequately covered by other instructions, it need not be given”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Boykins v. State · Sanchez-Dominguez v. State
  3. “It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that the State has the burden of proving the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.... The tactic of stating that the defendant can produce certain evidence or testify on his or her own behalf is an attempt to shift the burden of proof and is improper.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Harkness v. State

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.