Riley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1989
6 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 Lamar v. State · Head v. State · Hawthorne v. State · Green v. State · Jeff 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * This is a case where the evidence, taken as a whole, would warrant a fair and unbiased juror in believing that deceased was the aggressor; and, this being true, the instruction should not have been given. The instruction assumes that the fatal shot was deliberately and unlawfully fired, and upon this assumed fact is built a legal presumption of guilt which defendant must overcome. “The defendant in a criminal case is never required to overcome the state’s theory; he is entitled to an acquittal if the evidence, or want of evidence, raises a reasonable doubt of his guilt.” ( 109 Miss. at 290 , 68 So. at 251 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘The court instructs the jury for the state that the law presumes malice from the deliberate and unlawful use of a deadly weapon whereby life is taken, and the presumption of law will prevail, unless overthrown by the facts and circumstances in evidence.’” ( 109 Miss. at 290 , 68 So. at 251 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.