Bolin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Cari (1972), State v. Turcio (1979)
2 federal appellate · 121 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 McBee v. State · Carroll v. State · Anderson v. State · Strader v. State · Cooper 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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This well-settled rule rests on a sound foundation. The trial judge and the jury see the witnesses face to face, hear their testimony and observe their demeanor on the stand. Thus the trial judge and jury are the primary instrumentality of justice to determine the weight and credibility to be given to the testimony of witnesses. In the trial forum alone is there human atmosphere and the totality of the evidence cannot be reproduced with a written record in this Court.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where evidence has been presented at the trial of the cause which permitted an inference of guilt of a lesser included offense * * * a charge on the law applicable to each such offense was mandatory.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The law says that the defense of alibi should be received by the jury discreetly and cautiously because it is a defense that can be easily manufactured or fabricated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Christian 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.