State v. . Minton’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably State v. Stephens (1956), State v. Irick (1977)
82 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that fingerprints corresponding to those of an accused are found in a place where a crime was committed is without probative force unless the circumstances are such that the fingerprints could have been impressed only at the time when the crime was perpetrated. 20 Am. Jur., Evidence, section 358; 16 A.L.R., Annotation, 370; 63 A.L.R., Annotation, 1324.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the rule is, that the facts established or adduced on the hearing must be of such a nature and so connected or related as to point unerringly to the defendants' guilt and exclude any other reasonable hypothesis”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hendrick
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.