State v. Jarrell’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably State v. Simmons (1954), State v. Horton (1969)
27 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. . Minton · State v. . Harvey · State v. Palmer · State v. . Boyd · State v. . Robinson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While circumstantial evidence is a “recognized and accepted instrument in the ascertainment of truth,” (citation omitted) when the State relies upon such evidence for a conviction of a felony, as in the present case, “the rule is, that the facts established or advanced on the hearing must be of such a nature and so connected or related as to point unerringly to the defendant’s guilt, and to exclude any other reasonable hypothesis” (citation omitted)[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.