State v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Chavez (2009), State v. Gallegos (2011)
4 district · 85 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 · United States v. Arvizu · State v. Sutphin · Santillanes v. State · State v. Coffin
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test for sufficiency of the evidence is whether substantial evidence of either a direct or circumstantial nature exists to support a verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt with respect to every element essential to a conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Storey · State v. Sena“pars[ing] the testimony and view[ing] the verdict only in light of the probative value of individual pieces of evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trossman · State v. Sena“[w]e view the evidence as a whole and indulge all reasonable inferences in favor of the jury's verdict,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trossman · State v. Sena
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.