State v. Diar’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
524 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 524 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. McKelton (Slip Opinion) (2016), State v. Montgomery (Slip Opinion) (2016)
524 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · State v. Bradley
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 524 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he relevant inquiry is whether, after viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keith · State v. High“The touchstone of the analysis 'is the fairness of the trial, not the culpability of the prosecutor.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Raider · State v. Austin“latitude as to what the evidence has shown and what inferences can be drawn from the evidence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.