State v. Franco’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 153 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably State v. Purlee (1992), State v. McDonald (1983)
2 federal appellate · 153 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. Cuckovich · State v. Lang · State v. Thomas · State v. Kenyon · State v. Ramsey
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he mere existence of other possible hypothesis is not enough to remove the case from the jury.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Biddle · State v. Arnold“The jury in the instant case could reasonably infer from the concealment of the victims’ bodies that they were intentionally killed under circumstances that could not be deemed justifiable or excusable, and that their deaths were not suicidal or accidental. The combined testimony of the pathologist and ballistic expert amply supported a finding by the jury that the victims’ deaths were caused by a deadly weapon used upon vital parts of their bodies. Further, the jury could reasonably infer from the collective impact of the following evidence that appellant committed the homicides in question: (1) appellant’s access to the basement of the dwelling house where the victims’ bodies were found; (2) appellant’s possession of an Indian belt buckle on the afternoon of January 2,1974, which belonged to victim Terry C. Ott; (3) the presence of appellant’s fingerprint on a purse belonging to Linda Kay Baber, which was partly concealed on a rafter in the basement where the victims’ bodies were discovered; (4) appellant’s presence on January 2, 1974, in the immediate area of the dwelling house where the victim’s bodies were eventually found almost a month later; and (5) the fact that appellant left a message for victim Terry C. Ott to call him on the morning of January 2,1974, at the dwelling house where the victims’ bodies were found.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“willful premeditated killing of a human being with malice aforethought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilkerson v. Wyrick
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.