State v. Trujillo’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Whistnant (1980), State v. Bird (1985)
48 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 Taylor v. Kentucky · State v. Freeman · State v. Wilkins · State v. Lora · State v. Kirby
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A defendant is presumed to be innocent until the contrary is proved. When there is a reasonable doubt as to his guilt, he must be acquitted. When there is a reasonable doubt as to which of two or more degrees of an offense he is guilty, he may be convicted of the lowest degree only.” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hall · State v. Brammer“a trial court should instruct on lesser included offenses in the order of severity beginning with the offense with the most severe penalty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Smith · State v. Adams“PIK “52.02 Burden of Proof, Presumption of Innocence, Reasonable Doubt “The law places the burden upon the State to prove the defendant is guilty. The law does not require the defendant to prove his innocence. Accordingly, you must assume that the defendant is innocent unless you are convinced from all of the evidence in the case that he is guilty. “You should evaluate the evidence admitted in this case and determine the innocence or guilt of the defendant entirely in accordance with these instructions. The test you must use is this: If you have a reasonable doubt as to the truth of any of the claims made by the State, you should find the defendant not guilty. If you have no reasonable doubt as to the truth of any of them, you should find the defendant guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Behler
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.