Guthrie v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1947
12 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is, perhaps, true at common law that if it was shown that this particular allegation was untrue, that the grand jury did know the parties whose names were omitted, then that an acquittal must follow. But it by no means follows that this allegation, like those which are met by the presumption of innocence, must be proved by the state beyond a reasonable doubt. Upon the contrary quite a different rule is to be applied, and the burden is on the defendant to show that the grand jury at the particular time of finding the indictment knew the names of the party described as unknown.””
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.