Christian v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2023
15 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 Thomas v. Southtrust Bank of Alabama · United States v. Pope · Samarzia v. Clark County · Cain v. South Carolina · 186 W. Va. 656 - Garnes v. Fleming Landfill, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(aln error in one jury instruction may be cured elsewhere in the jury instructions by conveying correct information to the jury in a clear and concise manner so that it is unlikely that an erroneous impression would remain in the minds of the jurors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“You should evaluate the evidence admitted in this case and determine the innocence or guilt of the Defendant entirely in accordance with these instructions. The test you must use is this: If you have a reasonable doubt as to the truth of any of the elements of the charge, you should find the Defendant not guilty. If you have no reasonable doubt as to the truth of any of them you should find the Defendant guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dean v. State“The necessary elements of the crime of Destruction of Property in Count II of the Information are: aoc % 2. That the Defendant knowingly, and pursuant to a common scheme, did knowingly deface, injure or destroy. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown 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.