Douglas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1985
21 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 People v. Alviso · Sisson v. State · State v. Scott · Lenord v. State · McCann 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * There is no fact or circumstance shown by the evidence for the state that such taking was not felonious, nor did the defendant undertake to show or suggest any. It is true a conviction cannot be sustained upon the mere confession of the accused that he took the animal, but the confession, when freely and voluntarily made, the corpus delicti being established, even though by purely circumstantial evidence, is sufficient to sustain the conviction. 25 Cyc. 120; Underhill’s Criminal Evidence (3d Ed.), p. 654; Wharton’s Criminal Evidence, vol. 2, pp. 1681 and 1813; McCann v. State, 20 Ariz. 489 , 182 P. 96 ; People v. Alviso, [ 55 Cal. 230 ], supra; Jackson v. State, 10 Okl.Cr. 525 , 139 P. 324 ; Kinzer v. State, 15 Okl.Cr. 267 , 176 P. 92 ; People v. Vedal, 28 Cal.App. 366 , 152 P. 438 ; State v. Scott, 86 Wash. 296 , 150 P. 423 , L.R.A. 1916B, 844 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Romo
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.