State v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably State v. Grissom (1992), State v. Rice (1997)
84 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 Tate v. People · Casey v. Phillips Pipeline Co. · State v. King · Penton v. State · State v. Brown
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where the circumstances are as consistent with the absence as well as the presence of crime, the corpus delicti has not been proved since the evidence is susceptible to a construction which will prove innocence as well as guilt." State v. Doyle, 201 Kan. at 479 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]resumption and inferences may be drawn only from facts established, and presumption may not rest on presumption or inference on inference.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the complete absence of any evidence that the defendant murdered the decedent, we can account for the verdict only by the feeling that the evidence of the relationship between the defendant and the decedent’s wife, and the prejudicial testimony the jury heard, led it to believe that the suspicions in this case were well-founded and sufficient to warrant the defendant’s conviction. But mere suspicion, however strong, is not enough and juries are not permitted to base verdicts of conviction on suspicion. . . .” (201 Kan. pp. 488, 489.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.