State v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1972
18 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. Marshall · State v. Williams · State v. Conway · Folk v. City of St. Louis · State v. Ray
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . but if you believe beyond a reasonable doubt from all the evidence in this case including that of good character that defendant is guilty on this charge his good character will not justify or excuse him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stogsdill
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.