Compton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 1972 · most notably Booth v. State (1946), Roberson v. State (1913)
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 Hornsby v. State · DeArman v. State · Pierson v. State · Gibson v. State · Ex parte Sloane
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.
““When the facts which prove the killing do not rebut the presumption, which the law raises, the burden is on the defendant by other evidence to rebut it, and failing to meet this burden, the presumption of the law is against him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Booth 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.