State v. Crisman’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1985
11 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 Mack v. State · State v. Hofer · People v. Spencer · Hansbrough v. State · State v. Rand
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You are instructed that evidence as to the character of the defendant as to peacefulness, quietness and non-violence should be considered by you with all of the other evidence in determining the guilt or innocence of the defendant. If you find that the defendant’s character as to peacefulness, quietness and non-violence is good, you may consider such evidence in determining whether a man of such good character for peacefulness, quietness and nonviolence would be apt to commit the crime of murder. “If the evidence of such good character as to peacefulness, quietness and non-violence is sufficient, together with all of the other evidence, to generate a reasonable doubt as to the defendant’s guilt, he is entitled to an acquittal, even though without such proof of such good character the jury would convict. “Previous good character as to peacefulness, quietness and non-violence, however, is no defense to a crime actually committed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Levy“The reason appears to be that defendant should not be deprived of the advantage of any explanatory or favorable statements contained in it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Milton
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.