State v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably State v. Paris (1966), Lufkins v. Leapley (1992)
2 federal appellate · 47 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 People v. McMonigle · People v. Selby · Snead v. State · Hoffman v. State · Buford 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he evidence of the state, including the reasonable inferences which the jury (in the instant case, the Court) was at liberty to draw from the circumstances presented, is sufficient to justify its verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Minkel · State v. Hanson““ ‘When the state has introduced evidence upon which, if believed by the jury, they may reasonably find the defendant guilty of the crime charged, the state has made out a prima facie case, and the court would not- be justified in taking the case from the jury * * ” State v. Bates, 1955, 76 S.D. 23 , 71 N.W.2d 641 , quoting State v. Egland, 23 S.D. 323 , 121 N.W. 798 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Myott“"However, it is our view that the rule announced by this court under the former statute as to when a verdict should or should not be advised, applies under the present statute when the motion for a directed verdict of acquittal is predicated on the insufficiency of the evidence. State v. Halladay, 68 S.D. 547 , 5 N.W.2d 42 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scott
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.