State v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1997 · most notably State v. Whittemore (1961), 139 Ga. App. 279 - Caldwell v. State (1976)
28 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The witnesses for the state had fixed the date when the crime was committed as being between the 12th and 15th day of February, 1907. The defense was that the defendant was not the person who obtained the money, and that he was sick at home, unable to leave his room between those dates. The time of the commission of the crime was therefore clearly material. There are many cases where no issue is based upon the time when the crime was committed. In such cases this instruction would be correct, but was misleading and erroneous in this case because the time was definitely fixed by the state, and the .defense of an alibi was based upon that time. It is difficult to imagine a case where the time of the commission of a crime is not material to the defense of alibi.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hart““ ‘I will say in that connection that the exact date is immaterial. It does not make any difference so far as the crime is concerned if the defendant committed the crime as charged at any time within the period of three years prior to tbe time the information was filed, . y ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hart
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.