Chism v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Green v. State (2013), Mills v. State (1995)
67 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 Terry v. Ohio · Harris v. State · Jones v. State · Bennett v. State · Lukach 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule with respect to the sufficiency of the evidence is that the evidence to support a conviction, whether direct or circumstantial, must be of sufficient force and character that it will, with reasonable and material certainty and precision, compel a conclusion one way or the other. We will affirm the verdict of the trial court, if it is supported by substantial evidence, and circumstantial evidence may constitute substantial evidence. To be sufficient to sustain a conviction, the circumstantial evidence must exclude every other reasonable hypothesis consistent with innocence. This becomes a question for the factfinder to determine. In determining whether there is substantial evidence, the court reviews the evidence in the light most favorable to the appellee. Guilt may be proved, even in the absence of eyewitness testimony, and evidence of guilt is no less substantial because it is circumstantial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State“However, regardless of whether evidence is direct or circumstantial, it must still meet the requirement of substan-tiality — it must force the fact finder to reach a conclusion one way or the other without resorting to speculation or conjecture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State
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.