State v. Loss’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably State v. Wilkerson (1978), 17 Cal. 3d 399 - Landeros v. Flood (1976)
2 federal appellate · 70 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. DeZeler · 18 Cal. App. 3d 504 - People v. Jackson · State v. Ellingson · State v. Kotka · State v. Beilke
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The applicable rule to determine the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence was set forth originally in State v. DeZeler, 230 Minn. 39, 52 , 41 N.W.2d 313, 322 (1950), which held that circumstantial evidence will support a conviction only where the facts described by it— “ * * * form a complete chain which, in the light of the evidence as a whole, leads so directly to the guilt of the accused as to exclude, beyond a reasonable doubt, any reasonable inference other than that of guilt * * *.” In other words, circumstantial evidence “must do more than create a suspicion of guilt. It must point unerringly to the accused’s guilt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schleret v. State“The establishment of the fact that the deceased child was a battered child was proper, and adequate foundation was laid for the introduction of the evidence which conclusively established a battered child syndrome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Norlin
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.