State v. Skinner’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably State v. Wilkins (1974), State v. Peoples (1980)
40 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 State v. Garvin · Witt v. State of Indiana · 9 Ariz. App. 29 - State v. Hess · State v. Suing · State v. Johnson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Alibi is not an affirmative defense, as is entrapment or insanity; it consists only of evidence showing that the defendant was not present at the time or place of the crime. This evidence should be considered as all other evidence. If an instruction is given, attention is called to the defendant’s alibi, which connotes a burden not found in the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Peters“the danger in instructing separately relative to the defense of alibi lies in the almost insurmountable difficulty of avoiding connotation of some burden on the accused to prove the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McIver
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.