State v. Bridgers’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 1986 · most notably State v. Johnson (1979), State v. Minton (1952)
54 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 State v. . Scoggins · State v. . Sims · Jarrett v. High Point Trunk & Bag Co. · State v. . Nance · State v. Sheffield
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . [T]he defendant’s evidence of alibi is to be considered by you like any other evidence tending to refute or disprove the evidence of the State. And if upon consideration of all the evidence in the case, including the defendant’s evidence in respect to' alibi, there arises in your minds a reasonable doubt as to the defendant’s guilt, he should be acquitted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““I instruct you an alibi simply means that the defendant was at another place at the time the crime charged is alleged to have been committed, and therefore he could not have committed it. All the evidence bearing upon that should be carefully considered by you and if the evidence on this subject consistent with all that other testimony, is sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the accused, you should acquit him. The accused is not required to prove an alibi beyond a reasonable doubt, nor by the greater weight of the evidence, that is the preponderance. It is sufficient to justify an acquittal if the evidence on that point raises and supports a reasonable doubt of his presence at the time and place when the crime was charged to have been committed, if you find a crime was committed. (You understand also an attempt to prove an alibi does not shift the burden of proof from the State to the defendant, the burden is still upon the defendant).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allison
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.