State v. Prater’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably 160 W. Va. 497 - State v. McAboy (1977), 137 W. Va. 1 - State v. Blankenship (1952)
2 federal appellate · 52 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 State v. Cain · Real v. . the People · State v. Sheppard · Wilbur v. Flood · Gt. W. Turnpike Co. v. . Loomis
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court tells the jury that, where the evidence relied on for a conviction is wholly circumstantial, it must be of such a character as to preclude every reasonable hypothesis inconsistent with the guilt of the accused. It is not enough that the mystery of the crime cannot be solved from the evidence except, upon the supposition of the defendant’s guilt. The facts proven must be susceptible of explanation upon no reasonable hypothesis consistent with his innocence ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“They [the jury] illegally acquit and discharge the accused as to the higher degrees of crime charged in the indictment, after having found the [defendant] guilty. They have not exceeded the law, but stopped short of the law and of their duties. In other words, without warrant of law or moral right, they have exercised clemency, and dispensed what they conceived to be mercy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Franklin
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.