State v. Guffey’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 1985
19 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 Kelley v. . People of the State of N.Y. · Orr v. State · Davis v. State · People v. Byrne · State v. Pirkey
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To warrant a -conviction for crime on circumstantial evidence alone, the circumstances taken together should be of a conclusive nature, and leading, on the whole, to- a satisfactory conclusion, and pointing to a moral certainty that the accused committed the offense charged; and it is invariably the rule of law that, to warrant a conviction upon circumstantial evidence alone, such facts and1 circumstances must be shown as are consistent with each other, and consistent with the guilt of the party charged, and such, as cannot by any reasonable theory be true and the party charged be innocent; and in this case, if all the facts and circumstances relied upon byi the state to secure a conviction can be reasonably accounted for upon- any theory consistent with the innocence of the defendant, then the jury should- acquit the -dlefendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Guffy
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.