State v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Thomas (2004), 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak (1986)
3 federal appellate · 48 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. Kelly · McDonald v. State · Greenfield v. . People of the State of N.Y. · State v. Edelstein · Enlow 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before such testimony can be received, there must be such proof of connection with the crime, such a train of facts or circumstances as tend clearly to point out someone besides the accused as the guilty party.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“there must be such proof of connection with the crime, such as a train of facts or circumstances as tend clearly to point out some one besides the accused as the guilty party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n the absence of other circumstances tending in some manner to connect him with the commission of the crime,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Strizheus
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.