Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Crawford v. State (2005), Nunnery v. State (2011)
94 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 United States v. Feldman · United States v. Perkins · McNair v. State · Byford v. State · Domingues 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An abuse of discretion occurs if the district court's decision is arbitrary or capricious or if it exceeds the bounds of law or reason.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court has broad discretion to settle jury instructions and decide evidentiary issues,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The standard of review for sufficiency of the evidence in a criminal case is whether any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.