State v. . Vinson’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably State v. McClain (1954), State v. McClain (1954)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the fact offered to be proved be equally consistent with the existence or non-existence of the fact sought to be inferred from it, the evidence can furnish no presumption either way, and should not be admitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cheek v. Lumber Co.
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.