Shelby v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 1978
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McAfee v. State · Jethroe v. State · Moore v. State · Reyes v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Ellis 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence is in question, we examine it carefully, not for the purpose of finding whether or not it is adequate to overcome every reasonable hypothesis of in nocence, but with the view of deciding whether an inference may be reasonably drawn therefrom tending to support the finding of the trial court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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