State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Robert H. (2005), State v. Smith (2002)
61 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 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc. · Schlossberg v. Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury · State v. Stepney · In re Golub · State v. Sivri
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is no distinction between direct and circumstantial evidence so far as probative force is concerned.... Indeed, [c]ircumstantial evidence ... may be more certain, satisfying and persuasive than direct evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If evidence, whether direct or circumstantial, should convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that an accused is guilty, that is all that is required for a conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'to ensure that statements placed in evidence are not taken out of context.'”
2 later decisions 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.