Best v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
74
cited by 74 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited
74 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Kotteakos v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Guzman 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not required that the prosecution prove guilt beyond all possible doubt; it is required that the prosecution’s proof excludes all “reasonable doubt” concerning the Defendant’s guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pope 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.