State v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
240 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 240 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Bey (1988), State v. Martin (1990)
240 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 Commonwealth v. Bowden · State v. Lucas · State v. Butler · State v. Powell · State v. Thompson
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 240 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“comprehensible explanation of the questions that the jury must determine, including the law of the case applicable to the facts that the jury may find.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ppropriate and proper charges to a jury are essential for a fair trial.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Now, as you're certainly well aware of in this case, of prime consideration is the issue of identification. Defendant as part of his general denial of guilt contends that the State has not presented sufficient, reliable evidence to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that he is the person who committed the alleged offense. Where the identity of the person who committed the crime is an issue, the burden of proving that identity is upon the State. The State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this defendant is the person who committed the crime. The defendant has neither the burden nor the duty to show that the crime, if committed, was committed by someone else, or to prove the identity of that person. You must determine, therefore, not only whether the State has proven each and every element of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt that this is the defendantthat this defendant is the person who committed it.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.