Branch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Bloodsworth v. State (1986), Moye v. State (2002)
68 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Wolff v. McDonnell · Tichnell v. State · 5 Md. App. 450 - Williams v. State · Basoff 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial discrepancy between the description given by the victim of the crime almost immediately after the incident and the actual description of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“black male, approximately 5 feet 7 inches tall, 15 to 16 years of age, weighing 110-125 pounds[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The testimony of a victim, unlike that of an accomplice, needs no corroboration.”
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.