State v. Heaps’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Holgate (2000), State v. Scott (2020)
26 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 State v. Dunn · 116 Ill. 2d 474 - People v. Cabrera · United States v. Morris · Sincox v. United States · Cook v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When reviewing a jury verdict, we examine the evidence and all reasonable inferences in a light most favorable to the verdict, reciting the facts accordingly.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Painter · State v. Marchet“'the evidence to support the verdict was completely lacking or was so slight and unconvincing as to make the verdiet plainly unreasonable and unjust'”
3 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.