State v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2005
11 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. Franco · 18 Cal. App. 3d 504 - People v. Jackson · United States v. Kelton · State v. Loss · Grabill v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no evidence that the mortal injury was administered by a human and that the defendant was that person. The proofs allow no clue, either to an expert or to a lay person as to the cause of death, except to choose between two equal possibilities — a fall or a blow. Where the evi dence allows no more than equal support for either of two inconsistent inferences as to an ultimate and determinative fact, there is a failure of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ponder
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.