Terrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
May 1998
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Noggle v. State · Whittington v. State · Cameron v. State · Senase 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, as here, there is some direct evidence against the defendant, it is not error to fail to charge on circumstantial evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence, the proved facts shall not only be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, but shall exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.”
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.