State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Wallace v. State (1899), Nickels v. State (1925)
6 federal appellate · 69 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 Vicksburg v. O'Brien · Gilmer v. Higley · State v. Brooks · Smiths v. Shoemaker · Dayharsh v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are aware that some courts have required the defendant to establish his alibi by a preponderance of the evidence; but, in our opinion, such a rule is contrary to the presumption of innocence, to which every defendant is entitled in a criminal prosecution, and to the rule that requires the state to establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The burden is on the state and must remain on it throughout the trial . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hubbard
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.