Woods v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1997
12 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 Chapman v. State of California · 90 Okla. Crim. 435 - Hilyard v. State · 67 Okla. Crim. 283 - Lee v. State · Stumblingbear v. State · 67 Okla. Crim. 245 - Sparkman 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.
““The Oklahoma statute prohibiting comment on failure of defendant to testify is comprehensive in the extreme and the Court of Criminal Appeals will not enlarge nor extend its provisions so as to prevent a fair discussion of the evidence, even though the defendant did not testify and called no witness in her behalf. This statute will not be deemed to go to the extent of prohibiting comment upon inferences reasonably to be drawn from a failure to controvert the State’s evidence by proper proof other than that which might be given by the defendant personally.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. State · Story v. State““While no one testified to having actually seen the defendant take the money from the cash register, the circumstantial evidence is strong and convincing that the money thrown on the grocery store floor by the defendant had been taken from the cash register. This evidence, coupled with Mrs. Keener’s knowledge that the ten dollar bills had been in the cash register drawer only a moment earlier, appears to be sufficient to sustain the jury’s verdict. As stated in Stumblingbear v. State, Okl.Cr., 364 P.2d 1115 : ‘Where there is evidence, although entirely circumstantial, from which the jury may reasonably and logically find the defendant guilty, the weight, credibility and probative effect of such evidence is for the jury, and the Court of Criminal Appeals will not disturb the verdict for insufficiency of the evidence.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State““Where a defendant fails to offer any evidence, the prosecutor is not prevented from discussing the evidence against him and to state that such evidence is uncon-tradicted. Such argument would not be a violation of the statute forbidding comment on the fact that defendant did not testify.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCall 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.