State v. Kerr’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Roy (1989), State v. Stanislaw (1990)
62 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Rakas v. Illinois · Abel v. United States · City of St. Paul v. Vaughn · State v. Kasper
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that the guilt of a defendant in a criminal case may be proved by circumstantial evidence alone, if that evidence is proper and sufficient in itself. . . . The standard of proof is the same whether the evidence is direct or circumstantial: the facts necessary to establish the elements of a crime must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. . . . And this proof of facts includes reasonable inferences properly drawn therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rotax“constitute[ed] sufficient evidence of guilty knowledge to sustain the verdict”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.