Crouch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1994
6 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 Marable v. State · United States v. Pisano · McNeil 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our rule, that to convict on circumstantial evidence every other reasonable hypothesis must be excluded by the circumstances, Marable v. State, 203 Tenn. 440 , 313 S.W.2d 451 [(1958)], is applicable, and requires the same attitude toward fingerprint evidence as exists toward any other circumstantial evidence. McNeil, supra [McNeil v. State, 227 Md. 298 , 176 A.2d 338 (1961)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alexander
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.