Pellum v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 1982 · most notably Bancroft v. Otis (1890), Ragland v. State (1939)
32 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 Holmes v. State · Paden & Co. v. Bellenger & Ralls · Potts v. Coleman · Burkham v. Mastin · Smith v. State
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general charge should never be given when there is any evidence, however weak and inconclusive it may be, tending to make a case against the party who asks it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is the duty of the defendant, in proving an alibi, to reasonably satisfy the jury that he was elsewhere at the time of the commission of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.