Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably State v. Mercer (1969), State v. Caddell (1975)
83 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 Choice v. State · Wilson v. State · Wilburn v. State · Lanier v. State · Gully 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The words, `the jury can not convict upon mere conjecture and bare suspicion,' were not adjusted to the evidence in the case. So to charge would have unjustifiably reflected upon the State's evidence, and the request was more favorable to the accused than the evidence authorized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“`A request to charge should in itself be correct, and even perfect; otherwise the refusal to give it will not be cause for a new trial...' The written requests must be legal, apt, and precisely adjusted to some principle involved in the case...”
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.