State v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Lynch (1990), State v. Abshire (2009)
48 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 · State v. Smith · State v. Powell · State v. Earnhardt · State v. Cutler
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence is such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose of a motion for directed verdict is to test the legal sufficiency of the evidence for submission to the jury and to support a verdict for the non-moving party. ... In deciding the motion, the trial court must treat non-movant’s evidence as true, considering the evidence in the light most favorable to non-movant, and resolving all inconsistencies, contradictions and conflicts for non-movant, giving non-movant the benefit of all reasonable inferences drawn from the evidence. . . . Non-movant’s evidence which raises a mere possibility or conjecture cannot defeat a motion for directed verdict. ... If, however, non-movant shows more than a scintilla of evidence, the court must deny the motion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is 'concerned only with the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support a verdict, not its weight, which is a matter for the jury.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barnett · State v. Thorpe
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.