St. Pierre v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2014
2 district · 19 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · Francis v. Henderson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of proving circumstances which might justify or excuse the killing of another is upon the defendant, but the defendant need not prove such circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. State · Ybarra v. Wolff“which, at the time of ... trial, would have been inconsistent with the law as it then existed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sereika 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.