State v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1982
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any evidence, even a scintilla, tending to show self-defense.... it was proper for the court to instruct the jury that there was no such evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“Facts offered by the prisoner in excuse or mitigation need not be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, but only to the satisfaction of the jury,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clark.
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.