State v. Levesque’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1985
21 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 Bines v. State · State v. Brown · State v. Reed · State v. Peterson · Priest 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . ‘It is a doubt which a reasonable man of sound judgment, without bias, prejudice, or interest, after calmly, conscientiously and deliberately weighing all the testimony, would entertain as to the guilt of the prisoner.’ . . . ” State v. Reed, supra at 144 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McKeough““ * * * mere suspicion, however strong, will not supply the place of evidence and warrant a conviction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carleton
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.