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State v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

359
cited by 359 later decisions
2
states following
November 2024
most recently cited

357 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 359 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Barber (2004), State v. Benally (2001)

357 state decisions

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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 · State v. Garcia · State v. Garcia · State v. Ortega · State v. Orosco

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 359 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence, we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the guilty verdict, indulging all reasonable inferences and resolving all conflicts in the evidence in favor of the verdict.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “a fundamental unfairness within the system that would undermine judicial integrity if left unchecked.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “The relevant question 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.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.