State v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1983
20 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. Robertson · State v. Jack · State v. Connor · State v. Sisemore · State v. Williams
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the law as it now stands, therefore, the judge is not required to charge the jury that the .failure or neglect of an accused to testify cannot be construed for or against him. The statute permits him to deliver the charge when requested by the accused, but does not make it his imperative duty to do so without such request.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dierlamm“`Unless the district attorney makes the direct statement, or the inference is plain that he intended to bring to the attention of the jury the fact that the defendant had not testified there is no ground for complaint.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hoover
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.