Beecher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 160 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably 710 So. 2d 1276 - Williams v. State (1996), Loggins v. State (2000)
2 federal appellate · 160 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 Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Swain v. State of Alabama · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Fahy v. Connecticut
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State's evidence stands uncontradicted,”
17 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ashurst v. State · Luker v. State“[W]here there is the possibility that a prosecutor's comment could be understood by the jury as reference to failure of the defendant to testify, § 6 [Const. of Ala. of 1901] is violated.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grady v. State · Arthur v. State“Where there has been direct comment on defendant's failure to testify, and the trial court has not promptly acted to cure such a statement, the conviction must be reversed.”
3 later decisions 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.