Milton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Middleton v. State (1998), Domingues v. State (1996)
34 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Koza v. State · Lord v. State · Hutchins v. State · Zgombic 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the relevant inquiry is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guerrina v. State · Franks v. State“means: (a) Any instrument which, if used in the ordinary manner contemplated by its design and construction, will or is likely to cause substantial bodily harm or death; (b) Any weapon, device, instrument, material or substance which, under the circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be used or threatened to be used, is readily capable of causing substantial bodily harm or death; or (c) A dangerous or deadly weapon specifically described in NRS 202.255, 202.265, 202.290, 202.320 or 202.350. The editor's note to NRS 193.165 provides:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buff v. State“[i]n determining whether a knife is a deadly weapon, the district court must consider the particular type of knife that was used in the crime and determine whether it satisfies the `inherently dangerous weapon' test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buff 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.