Young v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2007 · most notably Romine v. State (1983), Francis v. State (1995)
3 federal appellate · 29 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Burks v. United States · Bullington v. Missouri · Hicks v. State · Meeks v. Havener
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rather than reversing in part and affirming in part, the Court of Appeals chose to substitute its opinion for that of the district court. . . . [T]he effect of this reversal was to nullify the entire opinion of the district court and to place the parties in the position quo ante, subject, of course, to the holdings of the court of appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Georgia“[a] person commits the offense of robbery when, with intent to commit theft, he takes property of another from the person or the immediate presence of another . . . [b]y intimidation, by the use of threat or coercion, or by placing such person in fear of immediate serious bodily injury to himself or to another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]bsent a reliance upon Jackson v. Virginia ... in support of [the federal district court's] determination, we conclude that the court's observations related to the weight of the evidence rather than the constitutional sufficiency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Kemp
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.