State v. . Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1975 · most notably Mullaney v. Wilbur (1975), State v. Hankerson (1975)
20 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the principle on which the doctrine of reasonable doubt is grounded is as much applicable to the grade of the homicide as it is to the fact of the homicide”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Ellick“Whoever would shelter himself under the plea of provocation must prove his case to the satisfaction of the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Ellick“till the presumption is repelled by contrary evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Ellick
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.