State v. Gonce’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1923
12 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 Cargile v. Wood · Commonwealth v. Jennings · State v. McDonald · Ham's Case
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That part of the instruction as to a reasonable doubt is usually asked and given on the part of the State. . . . Even though it may appear to the court there can be no.grounds for a reasonable doubt, yet the accused must have the opinion of the triers of the fact upon that question. This instruction should have been given for the defendant, and the court committed error in refusing it. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Douglas
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.