Crawford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably Luckett v. State (1972), Lisenko v. State (1976)
55 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 Baker v. State · Manlove v. State · Easton v. State · Osbon v. State · Robertson 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"efficient methods of law enforcement, such as alarm systems. Police officers promptly alerted, [would have to] wait until the intruder has first seized the property or committed a rape or some other felony before the intruder may be convicted of a felony. A home owner who finds an intruder in his home at night will be surprised to hear that such a law-breaker cannot be convicted of a felony until he has first seized property or raped somebody, even though he can give no logical explanation of why he is there and even though he may be hiding or attempting to flee."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Vaughan v. State · Lisenko v. State““Thus it is clear that where the evidence is wholly circumstantial and fails to exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence such evidence is not sufficiently persuasive to allow a reasonable man to find the accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and such a finding of guilty cannot stand.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kissinger v. State““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 presumption of innocence of the defendant * * (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner 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.