State v. Pearce’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1978 · most notably Basoff v. State (1977), Meno v. State (1912)
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Ruloff v. . the People · Dunn v. . the People · Farrell v. People · State v. Owens · State v. Dineen
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That defendant has not testified in this ease cannot be taken into consideration by you in determining the guilt or innocence of the defendant, and all reference thereto, and inference therefrom, must be entirely excluded from your minds; and your determination must be based solely upon the evidence introduced and the instructions of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tate 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.