State v. Mathers’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Bolton (1995), State v. Roque (2006)
6 federal appellate · 141 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 · Sims v. Central Intelligence Agency · State v. Jones · State v. Clabourne · State v. Mosley
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence is more than a mere scintilla and is such proof that `reasonable persons could accept as adequate and sufficient to support a conclusion of defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sabalos · State v. Tarango“we view the evidence in the light most favorable to sustaining the verdict, and we resolve all inferences against the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Dansdill“no substantial evidence to warrant a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tarango
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.