People v. DeFore’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1934
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.
Relationships
Relies on Kenyon v. . the People · Boyce v. . People of the State of New York · People v. Millspaugh · 41 How. Pr. 179 - Reynolds v. People
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is the duty of the trial judge in a criminal case to instruct the jury in reference to the presumptions of law applicable to the case before them, distinguishing those which are conclusive from those which are disputable. The presumption of innocence is present in every criminal case; and he should instruct the jury to that effect, and that it stands good until overcome by evidence, which convinces the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the respondent is guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Karamol
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.