Beavers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably State v. Whelan (1986), 26 Cal. 3d 334 - People v. Chavez (1980)
44 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 California v. Green · Bridges v. Wixon · Noyd v. Bond · Frank v. Maryland · People v. Johnson
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A witness may be impeached by evidence that he has made at other times statements inconsistent with his present testimony. The statements must first be related to him, with the circumstances of times, places, and persons present, and the witness shall be asked whether he has made such statements and, if so, shall be allowed to explain them."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McMaster v. State · Wright v. State“[T]he evidence and the inferences to be drawn therefrom are to be viewed in a light most favorable to the state. The question, thus, is whether the finding of guilt is supported by substantial evidence, that is, such relevant evidence which is adequate to sup port a conclusion by a reasonable mind that there was no reasonable doubt as to appellant’s guilt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. State · McCurry v. State“A conviction shall not be had on the testimony of an accomplice unless it is corroborated by other evidence which tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the crime or the circumstances of the commission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lemon v. State · Evans 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.