Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1976
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Patterson v. State · Gore v. State · Inman v. State · Allen v. State · Thomas 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant, under our law, is permitted by law to make a statement in his own behalf; that statement is not under oath; he is not sworn. You can believe a part and reject a part. You can believe it to the exclusion of the sworn testimony in the case, provided you believe it to be true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dowdell v. State“The reasonable doubt of the law is one that grows out of the evidence, which arises from want of evidence or grows out of a conflict in the evidence, and leaves a reasonable mind wavering and unsettled, not satisfied from the evidence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dowdell v. State“that the evidence should be so conclusive as to exclude every reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dowdell v. State
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.