State v. Bellamy’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Sims (1991), State v. Johnson (1991)
6 federal appellate · 30 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 Martin v. Ohio · State v. Linder · State v. Plath · State v. Davis · State v. Butler
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it does not comport with South Carolina law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Addison · Smart v. Leeke“If you have a reasonable doubt of the defendant’s guilt after considering all the evidence including the evidence of self-defense, then you must find him not guilty. On the other hand, if you have no reasonable doubt of the defendant’s guilt after considering all the evidence including the evidence of self-defense, then you must find him guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Addison · State v. Addison“As Professor McAninch observed, `The clear implication of the proposed instruction in Davis is that self-defense is no longer to be considered an affirmative defense which must be established by the defendant by a preponderance of the evidence. [I]f any reasonable doubt remains as to self-defense, the jury must acquit.' W. McAninch & W. Fairey, The Criminal Law of South Carolina, 101 (Supp.1986).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Addison
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.