Draper v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2009
13 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 State v. MacQueen · Albritton v. State · State v. Lowry · Lucchesi v. Commonwealth · State v. Rockett
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The true doctrine seems to be that where the State has established a prima facie case and the defendant relies upon the defense of alibi, the burden is upon him to prove it, not beyond a reasonable doubt, nor by a preponderance of the evidence, but by such evidence, and to such a degree of certainty, as will, when the whole evidence is considered, create and leave in the mind of the jury a reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Com.“[a]libi ... is not a defense in the accurate meaning of the term, but a mere fact shown in rebuttal of the State's evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Com.
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.