Borders v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2006
13 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 United States v. Edwards · United States v. Amato · United States v. Nadaline · Chason v. State · 172 So. 2d 614 - Bass 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A person charged with a crime may be convicted solely on the basis of circumstantial evidence... . Indeed it is well recognized that the existence of a conspiracy or confederation can and will be inferred from circumstantial evidence as indicative of an overall plan." (citations omitted) Borders v. State, supra, page 248.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.