Thiede v. People of Territory of Utah’s Empirical Analysis
159 U.S. 510 · 1895
Citation profile
112 federal appellate · 9 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 210 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1998 · most notably Brooks v. Tennessee (1972), Clune v. United States (1895)
112 federal appellate · 9 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Reynolds v. States · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Logan v. United States · Hayes v. State of Missouri · Hopt v. People
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 210 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true these matters do not constitute direct evidence of ill treatment or a long-continued quarrel, but they are circumstances which, taken in connection with the testimony of what was seen and heard passing between the defendant and his wife, were fairly to bo considered by the jury in determining the truth in respect thereto. Whether the relations between the defendant and his wife were friendly or the reverse was to be settled, not by direct or positive but by circumstantial evidence, and any circumstance which tended to throw light thereon might fairly be admitted in evidence before the jury.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““These jurors testified substantially that at the time of the homicide they had read accounts thereof in the newspaper, and that some impression had been formed in their minds from such reading, but each stated that he could lay aside any such impression, and could try the case fairly and impartially upon the evidence presented.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Musser““As has been frequently said, great latitude is allowed in the reception of circumstantial evidence, the aid of which is constantly required, and therefore, where direct evidence of the fact is wanting, the more the jury can, see of the surrounding facts and circumstances the more correct their judgment is likely to be.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.