Maxwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 1998 · most notably Anderson v. State (1922), Parrish v. State (1903)
61 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 Mitchell v. State · Ford v. State · Gunter v. State · Boswell v. State · President of Ottawa v. County of La Salle
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would be an anomaly to require the State to prove a fact which the law presumes to exist, and to authorize such fact to be overturned by the injection into the case of a reasonable doubt of its existence. Such is not the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cunningham v. State““The office of construction is to ascertain what the language of an act means, and not what the Legislature may have intended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tucker v. McLendon
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.