Arthur v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably Capps v. State (1967), Todd v. State (1951)
28 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 Kokenes v. State · McAdams v. State · Smith v. State · Brown v. State · Dedrick 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Any instruction by the court ... which would in any manner place the burden upon the appellant to prove his innocence, or force him to introduce evidence to create a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors, is erroneous. It is the affirmative duty of the State in criminal cases to prove the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and this burden cannot be shifted at any time to the defendant." 227 Ind. at 497 , 86 N.E.2d at 700 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the law imposes upon him the burden of accounting for his possession, and of showing that such possession was innocently acquired; and if he fails to do so . . the presumption arises that he is the thief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Inman 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.