Barger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 1995 · most notably Lisby v. State (1966), Williams v. State (1983)
38 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. Carmen · Wyatt v. State · Carter 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Citation of authority is no longer necessary for the proposition that a defendant in a criminal case is entitled to have the court instruct the jury about his theory of defense, if there is evidence to support it. The state acknowledges the rule, but suggests that Barger’s testimony was a fantasy not worthy of belief and cannot qualify as ‘some’ evidence, ‘substantial’ evidence or, indeed, even as ‘any’ evidence;. . . We hold that a defendant in a criminal case is entitled to have the jury instructed on his theory of the case as disclosed by the evidence, no matter how weak or incredible that evidence may appear to be. People v. Carmen, 228 P.2d 281 (Cal. 1951). The jury by its verdict will decide whether the truth rests with the state or the defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Froggatt v. State
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.