State v. Marley’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Thompson (1991), 153 N.C. App. 69 - State v. Pimental (2002)
28 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 Green v. United States · Francis v. Franklin · Coffin v. United States · Hankerson v. North Carolina · State v. Hankerson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To allow the trial court to use at sentencing an essential element of a greater offense as an aggravating factor, when the presumption of innocence was not, at trial, overcome as to this element, is fundamentally inconsistent with the presumption of innocence itself.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When there’s evidence which tends to show that the defendant was legally insane at the time of the alleged offense, you will consider this evidence only if you find that the state has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the things about which I’ve already instructed you. Even if the state does not prove each of these things beyond a reasonable doubt, the defendant would nevertheless be not guilty if he was legally insane at the time of the offense (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An acquittal is the "legal and formal certification of the innocence of a person who has been charged with a crime." Black's Law Dictionary 23 (5th ed. 1979). Once a defendant has been acquitted of a crime he has been "set free or judicially discharged from an accusation; released from ... a charge or suspicion of guilt." People v. Lyman, 53 A.D. 470, 473 , 65 N.Y.S. 1062, 1065 (1900) (quoting 1 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law (2d ed. p. 573)) (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scott
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.