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Easton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1967

Citation profile

148
cited by 148 later decisions
2
states following
November 2016
most recently cited

148 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Manlove v. State (1968), Vacendak v. State (1976)

148 state decisions

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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 Baker v. State · State v. Gregory · Tait v. State · Osbon v. State · Bradley 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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Where the evidence of an issuable fact is wholly circumstantial in nature the evidence must be so conclusive and compelling in character that it excludes every reasonable hypothesis of the assumption of innocence of the defendant.””
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Seats v. State · Sharp v. State
  2. “"It requires the trier of facts to be so convinced by the evidence that as a prudent man he would feel safe to act upon such conviction in matters of the highest concern and importance to his own nearest, dearest and most important interests under cireumstances where there was no compulsion or coercion to act at all."”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Linger v. State · Mediate v. State
  3. ““The intent being a primary element of the offense ... we are of the opinion that such an issuable fact may not be inferred from proof alone of the breaking and entering.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Davis v. State · Kondrup v. State

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.