State v. LeDuc’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably State v. Reese (1987), State v. Diaz (1986)
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 · Direct Sales Co. v. United States · State v. Powell · State v. Bindyke · State v. Goldberg
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.
“[t]he 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. [Citations omitted.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here is no direct evidence that defendant chartered the boat, participated in its navigation, or was ever aboard at the time marijuana was being transported. The jury could, of course, reasonably infer from other evidence adduced that all of these things were true. It could infer, from similarity in the signatures of the Florida driver’s license shown to the owners of the trawler, that defendant was the same Milan LeDuc who arranged for and executed the charter. It could infer from defendant’s fingerprints found aboard the vessel, the places where these prints were found, and defendant’s Coast Guard license application, that defendant had participated in navigating the trawler and was on board at the time marijuana was being transported. It is only by building on these inferences, however, that the jury might then further infer that defendant participated in an unlawful agreement to possess marijuana. Id. at 77-78 , 291 S.E. 2d at 616-17 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions 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.