State v. Witt’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1966
1 federal appellate · 16 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 Clem v. State · Durrum v. Hendrick · Chapman v. State · Castle v. State · State v. Bean
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(10) “The jury are instructed that if any member of the jury, after having considered all the evidence in this case, and after having consulted with his fellow jurymen, entertains a reasonable doubt of any defendant’s guilt, and after such consideration and consultation should entertain a reasonable doubt of any fact necessary to be proved to establish the guilt of that defendant, the jury caimot find such defendant ‘guilty.’ ” (11) “The jury are Instructed that the conspiracy charged in this case cannot be Inferred from mere circmnstanc.es of suspicion; hut the jury must be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that there was an agreement existing between the defendants, or two of them, as charged in the indictment.” (IT) “The jury are. instructed that, unless they find that a conspiracy was entered into between the defendants or two or more of them, they must find the defendants ‘not guilty’: that such conspiracy must not be guessed at, or found to be a fact from suspicious or suspicious circumstances, but that the jury, in order to find that there is such a conspiracy, must find that it is proved by the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"... It is the duty of the juror to consult and consider the views of his fellow-jurors, but utimately he must act upon his individual judgment, and ... if any one of the jury, after having considered all the evidence, and after having consulted with his fellow-jurymen, should entertain a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt, they cannot convict...." (l.c. 496.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Oswald
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.