State v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably State v. Silhan (1981), State v. Davis (1972)
68 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 State v. Kluckhohn · Brannon v. Ellis · State v. . Jessup · State v. . Colson · Rocky Mount Savings & Trust Co. v. Ætna Life Insurance
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] child’s uncertainty as to the time or particular day the offense charged was committed goes to the weight of the testimony rather than its admissibility, and nonsuit may not be allowed on the ground that the State’s evidence fails to fix any definite time when the offense was committed where there is sufficient evidence that the defendant committed each essential act of the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Callett the substantive portion of the bill is, `* * * commit the abominable and detestable crime Against Nature.' It does not name the pathic nor even allege whether with mankind or beast. The bill was quashed for failure to use the word `feloniously.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stokes“the time the alleged crime was committed by the defendant ... goes to [the] weight [of the evidence] rather than to its admissibility.”
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.