State v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably State v. Gregory (1936), State v. Nelson (1991)
31 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. Goodale · State v. Marcks · State v. Patrick · State v. Wagner · State v. McLaughlin
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the exclusive province of the jury to pass upon the truth of [a witness’s] story.” Id.; see also Peters, 186 S.W.3d at 780 n. 4 (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Platt · State v. Wadel““this court seems to have usurped the functions of the jury and refused to let convictions stand because the testimony of the prosecutrix was deemed unconvincing and improbable in view of the facts and circumstances of the cases notwithstanding the positive, though uncorroborated, testimony of the prosecutrix tending to show a state of facts neither impossible of existence nor inherently improbable in itself and not contrary to human experience.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nelson““We have been over this matter so frequently in recent cases that it should be unnecessary to cover the same ground again.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Griffith
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.