Bails v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Homick v. State (1992), Findley v. State (1978)
45 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 Holland v. United States · Kuk v. State · Brown v. State · Tucker v. State · Anderson 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You are not permitted to find the defendant guilty of the crime charged against [her] based on circumstantial evidence unless the proved circumstances are not only consistent with the theory that the defendant is guilty of the crime, but cannot be reconciled with any other rational conclusion. Each fact which is essential to complete a set. of circumstances necessary to establish the defendant’s guilt must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.” “Also, if the circumstantial evidence is susceptible of two reasonable interpretations, one of which points to the defendant’s guilt and the other to [her] innocence, it is your duty to adopt that interpretation which points to the defendant’s innocence, and reject that which points to [her] guilt. If, on the other hand, one interpretation of such evidence appears to you to be reasonable and the other interpretation to be unreasonable, it would be your duty to accept the reasonable interpretation and to reject the unreasonable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Deveroux 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.