Eason v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Moore v. State (1966), Mitchell v. State (1997)
42 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 Davis v. State · Johnson v. State · Flanagan v. State · 71 Ga. App. 96 - Graves v. State · John 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule as to the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence to support a conviction is that the evidence exclude every reasonable hypothesis except the guilt of the accused, not that it removes every possibility of his innocence. John v. State, 33 Ga. 257, 268 ; Farrar v. State, 110 Ga. 256 ( 34 SE 288 ); Williams v. State, 204 Ga. 837, 842 ( 51 SE2d 825 ); Graves v. State, 71 Ga. App. 96, 99 ( 30 SE2d 212 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheeler v. State“It [is] not necessary [for the State] to show that it was impossible for the offense to have been committed by anybody else, or that it might not, by bare possibility, have been done by another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DUNCAN v. the STATE.
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.