Siberry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Kiefer v. State (1958), Bernard v. State (1967)
4 federal appellate · 80 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Garfield v. State · Cowan v. State · Rhodes v. State · Carr v. State · Brown v. State
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * A reasonable doubt is such a doubt as the jury are able to give a reason for. * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sulie v. State · State v. Carter““It would seem that counsel for the defense, in their argument, desired to base their defense, or gain some advantage for their client, on some supposed testimony of the Campbells, or some fact in relation to the Camp-bells not before the jury, and stepped outside the bounds of legitimate argument to discuss the absence of the Campbells, and their supposed knowledge of the case; and that counsel for the state felt called upon to answer it, and did so. * * * This mode of conducting an argument in either a criminal or civil case is to be condemned; but when counsel for the defense step outside the bounds of the case, and indulge in the discussion of matters not before the jury, and thus pursue a line of illegitimate argument, it comes with ill grace and with poor favor to ask the court to restrain opposing counsel from answering such illegitimate argument, and prevent them from clearing away the rubbish illegitimately brought into the case, and casting it out that it may not mislead the jury. * * * It is immaterial to determine whether the statements of counsel were strictly within the bounds of legitimate argument or not. As the door was opened for it by counsel for the appellant, they cannot complain if counsel for the state" walked in at the door which they had opened.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It puts upon the defendant the burden of furnishing to every juror a reason why he is not satisfied of his guilt, with the certainty which the law requires, before there can be a conviction. There is no such burden resting on the defendant or a juror in a criminal case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harsted
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.