Kollock v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2015
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.
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.
““There are two legal principles applicable to such evidence, which are very well established: First, that each oí the several circumstances upon which the conclusion of guilt necessarily depends must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt; and, second, that they must not only point with moral certainty to the guilt of (he defendant, but must exclude, to a moral certainty, every other reasonable hypothesis.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trudell
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.