State v. Avery’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
February 1983
most recently cited
6 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Leland v. Oregon · Culberson v. Culberson · Coker 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has not been treated as a critical essential element of the offense which the prosecution is required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.