State v. . Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1971
9 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence for the State being uncontradicted, the court told the jury, if they believed the evidence, to return a verdict of guilty. This was correct, upon the evidence set out, and if the jury had returned a verdict, there would be no ground for exception”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Murphery“The plea of not guilty disputes the credibility of the evidence, even when uncontradicted, since there is the presumption of innocence, which can only be overcome by the verdict of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. . Windley
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.