Bethay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Humphrey v. State (1984), Ruffin v. State (1979)
150 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Whitlock v. State · Merino v. State · McNeal v. State · Cunningham 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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n reviewing the overruling of a motion for directed verdict of acquittal we will utilize the standard used in reviewing the overruling of a motion for new trial on the ground that the verdict is contrary to the evidence, i.e., the 'any evidence’ test ” Bethay v. State, 235 Ga. 371, 375 ( 219 SE2d 743 ) (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t constitutes reversible error for the trial court to refuse to direct a verdict of acquittal where there is absolutely no conflict in the evidence and the verdict of acquittal is demanded as a matter of law. [Cit.]”
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.