Bradbury v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Birchead v. State (1989), Gunning v. State (1997)
51 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 Wood v. State · Cooper v. State · Bollinger v. State · Pierce v. State · Weller 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * that proof of the corpus delicti need not be full and positive but may be established by the circumstances of each particular case; and that the supporting evidence is sufficient to establish the corpus delicti if, when considered in connection with the confession or admission, it satisfies the trier of facts beyond a reasonable doubt that the offense charged was committed and that the accused committed it.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. State · Woods v. State“the extrajudicial confession must be supported by evidence, independent of the confession, which relates to and tends to establish the corpus delicti, i. e., the facts that are necessary to show that a crime has been committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ I]t is, of course, well settled that an extrajudicial confession of guilt by a person accused of crime, unsupported by other evidence, is not sufficient to warrant a conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.