Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2008 · most notably Ferguson v. Georgia (1961), State v. Belt (1998)
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 Gallery v. State · Myrick v. State · Woodward v. State · Huntsinger v. State · Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Brown
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule undoubtedly is that, where there is some evidence to support the verdict found by the jury, and where the verdict found by the jury has been approved by the trial judge, manifested by his overruling of the motion for new trial upon the general grounds, we are bound to conclude that the judge exercised the sound discretion which the law wisely placed in his hands, and this court will be reluctant to interfere.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The failure of the court, in the absence of a written request, to limit the application of evidence admissible for any purpose is not error.”
1 later decision 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.