Selph v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State (1959), Morris v. State (1930)
27 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Were the rule as insisted on in force in this State, it would be difficult to convict a prisoner, where the State was compelled to introduce the evidence relied on by him for his defense, and then because he had not introduced any evidence himself, be allowed the concluding argument to the jury. Besides this, the compulsion of one side to introduce witnesses for the other would create confusion in practice as to the right of contradiction of witnesses and their cross-examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown 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.