State v. Kao’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
February 2015
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Just · State v. Geyman · State v. Vern Kills on Top · State v. Gilpin
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Walters
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.