McLaurin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1982
16 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 Smith v. State · Camden F.I. Assn. v. N.B v. Hotel Co. · Richardson v. State · Wood 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court instructs the jury for the State that while it is true that in this case, as in all criminal cases, the Defendant is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty, and that this presumption goes with the Defendant throughout the entire trial and until overcome by competent testimony, and while it is further true that the burden of proof in this case, as in all criminal cases, is upon the State to satisfy the minds of the jury of the guilt of the Defendant from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, yet the Court now says to you that this presumption of innocence, which the law throws around the defendant as a shield and safeguard and is not intended to shield from punishment anyone who is in fact guilty, but is simply a humane provision of the law to guard against the conviction of an innocent man, and the Court further says to you that if you believe from the evidence in this case, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the Defendant is guilty as charged, then, in that event, it is your sworn duty to say guilty by your verdict regardless of the presumption of innocence and the further fact of the burden of proof being on the State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keith v. State“While it is true in this case, as in all criminal cases, that the defendant is presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty, and that this presumption goes with the defendant throughout the entire trial and until overcome by competent testimony, and while it is further true that the burden of proof in this case, as in all criminal cases, is upon the state to satisfy the minds of the jury of the guilt of the defendant from the evidence beyond all reasonable doubt, yet the court now says to you that this presumption of innocence which the law throws around the defendant as a shield and safeguard is not intended to shield from punishment anyone who is in fact guilty, but is simply a humane provision of the law to guard against the conviction of any innocent person. The court further says to you positively, that if you believe from the evidence in this case, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant is guilty as charged in the indictment, then it is your sworn duty to say “guilty” by your verdict, regardless of the presumption of innocence and the further fact that the burden of proof is upon the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. State“The Court instructs the jury for the State that you are the sole judges of the credibility of the witnesses who testify in this case, and in determining what weight you should give the testimony of any witness, you have the rights to consider their demeanor upon the witness stand; what interest, if any, they have in the results of the trial, if it has been shown by the evidence they have any, and all other facts and circumstances in the evidence in this 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.