Beeler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2024
1 federal appellate · 11 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. Godfrey · 70 Okla. Crim. 228 - Green v. State · 77 Okla. Crim. 73 - Bean v. State · 8 Okla. Crim. 452 - Clemons v. State · 11 Okla. Crim. 471 - Moody v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Some weapons under particular circumstances, are so clearly lethal that the court may declare them to be such as a matter of law. Of this class are the weapons falling within the category of Title 21 OSA § 1271, supra, all others are lethal or not, according to their capability to produce death or great bodily harm in the manner in which they are used, and the jury must be the judge. It is a question of fact, the determination of which properly belongs to them”. See State v. Godfrey, 17 Or. 300 , 20 P. 625 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“as a matter of law when used in the ordinary manner contemplated by their design and construction, must also be considered”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““No doubt the jury was in a much better position to assess the punishment than the Criminal Court of Appeals. They heard and had occasion to observe the witness and the testimony of the prosecuting witness which, if believed by the jury, justified their verdict.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lovelace v. State
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.