Loftis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Inman v. State (1979), Holt v. State (1977)
44 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 Hinshaw v. State · Anderson v. State · Pritchard v. State · Randolph v. State · Reynolds 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The principle is established that a trial court may instruct the jury that if they find that all material allegations of the indictment or affidavit are proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they "should" convict the defendants. However, such an instruction would be erroneous where the court failed to set forth all the material allegations which the state must prove before conviction can be obtained or where the court failed to instruct the jury that they were the judges of the law as well as the facts."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burgett v. State · Mitchem v. State“'If you believe that all the essential elements of the crime charged have been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, you should convict the defendants'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Barker v. State · Burgett v. State“"The court now instructs you that if you should find that Margaret Pritchard or Ralph Pritchard or either one of them were guilty of cruelty or neglect of Kathy Jean Pritchard and that as a result of such cruelty or neglect beyond a reasonable doubt Kathy Jean Pritchard did sicken, languish and die, then you shall find such defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter,"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchem v. State · Wright 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.