State v. Silvas’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 1982 · most notably State v. Narten (1965), State v. Acosta (1966)
36 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 Sullivan v. State of Arizona · State v. Evans · State v. McGee · State v. Hilliard · State v. King
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That she was pressured into going along on a unanimous verdict of 'guilty’ by the sheer weight of the other jurors; that she pleaded and even cried with them; that her true feeling has been, and is, LARY J. MELCHER is not guilty because of her inability to satisfy the requirements in her own mind of defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.””
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.