Segars v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Wilson v. State (1942), 20 Ala. App. 62 - Wilson v. State (1924)
32 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 Washington 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * In a criminal case, a prima facie case of guilt does not generally rebut the presumption of innocence, or shift the burden of proof.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. State · Russell 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.