State v. Betsall’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably Halstead v. Horton (1894), 176 W. Va. 454 - State v. Davis (1986)
41 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 Stocking v. State · Read v. Commonwealth · 10 Ohio St. 283 - Trustees of Brimfield v. Commissioners of Portage · State v. Wolcott · People v. Davis
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * It seems that in all, or nearly all the cases cited, according to the law and practice governing the courts rendering the decisions, that the Judges were authorized in a criminal case, to charge the jury upon the facts as well as the law of the case. Such is not the law, or practice, either in Virginia or in our own State. In Virginia and in this State, the juries are judges of the law as well as the fact in a criminal case; and while the court may charge the jury as to the law of the case, yet the court is not permitted to charge the jury as to the weight of the evidence in any case. Our courts are somewhat peculiar in this respect; but the law has been so held in Virginia from the earliest history of her jurisprudence; and we think it constitutes one of the brightest ornaments thereof. * * *””
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.