State v. Peetros’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably State v. Laws (1967), State v. McDavitt (1972)
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 Commonwealth v. Bonomo · State v. Driver · State v. Garvin · Poe v. State · State v. Mucci
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.
“There is no need to speak of alibi in such separate terms----The important thing is to make it plain to jurors that to convict they must be satisfied ... that guilt has been established beyond a reasonable doubt. If a defendant’s factual claim is laid beside the State’s and the jury understands that a reasonable doubt may arise out of the defense testimony as well as the State’s, the jury has the issue in plain, unconfusing terms. If events at the trial should be thought to suggest to the jury that the defendant has the burden of proving he could not physically have committed the crime, then of course the trial court should dissipate that danger by telling the jury that the defendant does not have the burden of proving where he was at the critical time and that evidence offered on that score is to be considered with all the proof in deciding whether there is a reasonable doubt as to guilt. [Id. at 274, 208 A.2d 402.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Echols · State v. Echols“alibi is simply part of a defendant's general denial of guilt and ... it need not be singled out for special instruction to the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An alibi is not an affirmative defense. It is simply a denial that the accused committed the crime....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. RT
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.