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← 247 Ga. App. 719 - Stephens v. State

247 Ga. App. 719 - Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
2
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

25 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 235 Ga. App. 170 - Barber v. State · 229 Ga. App. 465 - Shabazz v. State · 244 Ga. App. 252 - Sirmans v. State · 242 Ga. App. 53 - Dudley 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “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
  2. “On appeal from a criminal conviction, the evidence is viewed in a light most favorable to the verdict.”
    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.