State v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 973 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 980 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Earnhardt (1982), State v. Bullard (1984)
3 federal appellate · 973 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 Houltin v. United States · Williamson v. United States · State v. Stephens · State v. Cutler · State v. Irick
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 980 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence is to be considered in the light most favorable to the State; the State is entitled to every reasonable intendment and every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom; contradictions and discrepancies are for the jury to resolve and do not warrant dismissal; and all of the evidence actually admitted, whether competent or incompetent, which is favorable to the State is to be considered by the court in ruling on the motion.”
146 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here is no substantial evidence giving rise to the reasonable inference that the defendant took the objects from the victim's presence . . . . The arrangement of the victim's body and the physical evidence indicate she was murdered during an act of rape. We believe that even construing the evidence in a light most favorable to the State, it indicates only that defendant took the objects as an afterthought once the victim had died. While it is true that `presence' of a victim must be construed broadly, and while it is true that frequently armed robbery, rape and murder are committed in one continuous chain of events and constitute contiguous crimes, we do not believe the evidence here supports that view of the facts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'What is substantial evidence is a question of law for the court. What that evidence proves or fails to prove is a question of fact for the jury.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.