State v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 1999 · most notably State v. Scurlock (1999), State v. Garrison (1938)
60 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 People v. Bogdanoff · State v. Swarens · State v. Stewart · State v. Carey · State v. Edwards
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Where a person on trial for a crime shows that he was in another place at the time when the act was committed, he is said to prove an alibi. (2) One of the defenses interposed by the defendant in this case is what is known as an alibi; that is, the defendant was at another place at the time of the commission of the crime. (3) The Court instructs the jury that such defense is as proper and as legitimate, if proved, as another, and all evidence bearing upon that should be considered by the jury. (4) If, in view of all the evidence, the jury have a reasonable doubt as to whether the defendant was in some other place when the crime was committed, they should give the defendant the benefit of the doubt, and find him not guilty. (5) As regards the defense of an alibi, the jury are instructed that the defendant is not required to prove that defense beyond a reasonable doubt to entitle him to an acquittal; it is sufficient if the defense upon that point raises a reasonable doubt of his presence at the time and place of the commission of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hubbard“We think it also invades the province of the jury as to what weight they should give to the testimony, and should not be given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Clark
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.