State v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably State v. Jones (1979), 410 So. 2d 689 - State v. Chapman (1982)
1 federal appellate · 36 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is plain that the rule of reasonable doubt requires that a defendant charged with murder, be extended the benefit of that doubt, when it is questionable that the crime committed by him was murder or manslaughter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jackson · Gilmore v. State“* * * The proper charge to be given as to this statute is for the presiding judge to simply inform the jury that under its provisions they may recommend the defendant to the mercy of the court, and that the effect of such recommendation will be to save the accused from death, and cause him to be sentenced for lifetime imprisonment at hard labor. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be reduced to imprisonment in the penitentiary with hard labor during the whole lifetime of the prisoner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The STATE v. Worthy
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.