State v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably State v. Gunby (2006), State v. Bly (1974)
2 federal appellate · 74 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Wilson v. United States · State v. Reed · State v. Adams · State v. Kirby · People v. . Grutz
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of law applicable to questions of this kind is well settled. It is clear that the commission of one offense cannot be proven on the trial of a party for another, merely for the purpose of inducing the jury to believe that he is guilty of the latter, because he committed the former. You cannot prejudice a defendant before a jury by proof of general bad character, or particular acts of crime other than the one for which he is being tried. And on the other hand, it is equally clear, that whatever testimony tends directly to show the defendant guilty of the crime charged, is competent, although it also tends to show him guilty of another and distinct offense. (The State v. Folwell, 14 Kan. 105 .) A party cannot, by multiplying his crimes, dimmish the volume of competent testimony against him. A man may commit half a dozen distinct crimes, and the same facts, or some of them, may tend directly to prove his guilt of all; and on the trial for any one of such crimes it is-no objection to the competency of such facts, as testimony, that they also tend to prove his guilt of the others. By this rule, whatever is done in preparation for a crime, or in concealing the fruits, is competent, although in such preparation or concealment is committed another and distinct offense. . . .” (p. 319.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. O'Neal““Any pertinent fact which throws light upon the subject under judicial consideration — the accused’s guilt or innocence of the crime for which he is charged and on trial, is admissible; nor is-'such probative fact to be excluded merely because it may also prove or tend to prove that the accused has committed another crime or many crimes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hilbish“[A] party cannot, by multiplying his crimes, diminish the volume of competent testimony against him.”
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.