104 So. 2d 391 - Harrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1958

Citation profile

cited by 39 later decisions

states following

June 1999

most recently cited

39 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably 315 So. 2d 461 - Proffitt v. State (1975), Groneau v. State (1967)

39 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 Gustine v. State · 71 So. 2d 899 - Mayo v. State · Russ v. State · Blackwell v. State · 62 So. 2d 41 - Head 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“When circumstantial evidence is relied upon for conviction in a criminal case, the circumstances, when taken together, must be of a conclusive nature and tendency, leading on the whole to a reasonable and moral certainty that the accused, and no one else, committed the offense. If the facts in proof are equally consistent with some other rational conclusion than that of guilt, the evidence is insufficient. If the evidence leaves it indifferent as to which of several hypotheses is true, or merely establishes some finite probability in favor of one hypothesis rather than another, such evidence cannot amount to proof, however great the probability may be. It is the actual exclusion of each other reasonable hypothesis which clothes mere circumstances with the force of proof. Circumstantial evidence which leaves nothing more than a suspicion that the accused committed a crime is not sufficient to sustain a conviction.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Engdall v. State · Moye v. State
“[t]he cloak of liberty and freedom is far too precious a garment to be trampled in the dust of mere inference compounded.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Jones v. State · 736 So. 2d 77 - Jackson 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.