296 So. 2d 609 - Amato v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Sorey v. State (1982), 369 So. 2d 578 - McArthur v. Nourse (1979)
39 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 Vick v. United States · 179 So. 2d 873 - Spataro v. State · Arant v. State · 210 So. 2d 486 - Markman v. State · 263 So. 2d 627 - Skold 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... the test to be applied on review of a denial of a motion for judgment of acquittal is not whether, in the opinion of the trial court or the appellate court, the evidence fails to exclude every reasonable hypothesis but that of guilt but, rather, whether the jury might reasonably so conclude. Vick v. United States, 216 F.2d 228 (5th Cir.1954). The jury is the pivotal point at which evidence is aimed, not the courts."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a constructive possession case, the State's burden is to show beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant [1] knew of the presence of the contraband and that he [2] had the ability to exercise dominion and control over it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“For the purposes of this section, "cannabis" shall not include the resin extracted from the plant Cannabis sativa, L, or any compound manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such resin.”
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.