State v. Phillip’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently December 2000 · most notably State v. Tolley (1976), State v. Grooms (2000)
77 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. . Gibson · State v. Hammonds · State v. Hammonds · State v. Wilcox. · State v. Creech
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mr. Bryson [defense counsel]: .... “A reasonable doubt is a fair and honest doubt based on common sense and reason[] and one that leaves your mind so that you cannot say that you have an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the defendant’s guilt.” [Id. at 268, 134 S.E.2d at 391 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Warren
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.