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State v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
2
states following
June 2017
most recently cited

30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably State v. Prince (1993), State v. Miller (1986)

30 state decisions

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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 State v. Dasher · State v. Damon · State v. Miller · State v. Stewart · State v. Teal

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “may not move for verdict in arrest of judgment based on the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the allegations in the indictment.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “There is no precedent in this State for such action. This is not a case in which a trial judge has granted a new trial upon the facts (a power which he admittedly has) but rather one in which a trial judge had entered a verdict of not guilty in the face of conflicting evidence (a power he has never had in this jurisdiction) .... To affirm this decision is to grant unprecedented license to trial judges to invade the area where the jury system has been deemed most effective— that is, in assessing the truthfulness of fellow human beings testifying under oath.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “Whe[n] there is competent evidence to sustain a jury's verdict, the trial [court] may not substitute [its] judgment for that of the jury and overturn that 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.