State v. Hoerr’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1976
14 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 State v. Stewart · State v. Spaulding · State v. Morrison · State v. Truskett · State v. Hammon
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court was asked to give a general instruction that it is the policy of the law that it is better that a guilty person should escape rather than that an innocent man should be convicted. It is doubtful whether juries are assisted by such general observations, after being fully instructed, as they were in this instance, upon the presumption of innocence and the necessity of proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt before a verdict of guilty can be found.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hoel““Some of these matters bear very remotely on the case, but are admissible when considered together to show a guilty combination tending to prove the defendant’s complicity in the crime charged.” (p. 583.)”
1 later decision 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.