State v. Faircloth’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably State v. Draganescu (2008), State v. Gilman (1972)
68 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 12 Ill. 2d 151 - The People v. MacK · 179 So. 2d 873 - Spataro v. State · Evans v. United States · Carroll v. State · State v. Hunt
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where circumstantial evidence is relied upon in a criminal prosecution, the circumstances proven must relate directly to the guilt of the accused beyond all reasonable doubt in such a way as to exclude any other reasonable conclusion. Any fact or circumstance reasonably susceptible of two interpretations must be resolved most favorably to the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dent
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.