Opfer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 1992
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wagner v. State · Averhart v. State · Kalady v. State · Murray v. State · Hedges 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a defendant is innocent, he should not be convicted erroneously; but if a defendant is guilty, he should not be acquitted erroneously. By acquittal of the guilty, the contempt of the law is aroused among the criminal classes and the safeguards of society are weakened.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Corbin v. State · Phillips v. State“'In clothing those charged with crime with the presumption of innocence, the law does not contemplate that thereby the guilty should be shielded from merited punishment. Its object is to protect the innocent, so far as human agencies can, from the effects of unjust verdicts. The effect of this presumption is to withhold punishment from one charged with crime until all the facts necessary to constitute the offense charged have been proved to that degree of certainty fixed by law as being beyond reasonable doubt.' 'If a defendant is innocent, he should not be convicted erroneously, but if a defendant is guilty, he should not be acquitted erroncously.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peak 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.