Leavine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably Carnley v. Cochran (1962), Steinhorst v. State (1982)
78 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 Wallace v. State · Bessie Cannon v. State of Florida · Pope v. State · Johnson v. Reynolds · Lester 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"For the judge to have said that he thought the evidence was not material probably emphasized the error in excluding the question if the answer had been an affirmative one, because a trial court should avoid making any remarks within the hearing of the jury that is capable directly or indirectly, expressly, inferentially, or by innuendo of conveying any intimation as to what view he takes of the case or that intimates his opinion as to the weight character, or credibility of any evidence adduced."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The guilt of a person charged with crime must be established beyond a reasonable doubt; a strong probability of crime is not sufficient.””
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.