State v. Strawther’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 1982 · most notably State v. Teeter (1948), State v. Gardner (1968)
25 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 Britain v. Rice · Griffith v. Continental Casualty Co. · State v. Malone · State v. McDaniel · Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co. v. Fox
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The shifting of the burden of evidence is governed by rules of procedure which are designed solely for the guidance of the court; with respect to their observance, operation, or effect, the jury has no function to perform.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the burden of proving that he acted in self-defense rests upon the defendant, Johnny Malone, and not upon the State . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hubbard
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.