State v. Mollison’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2019
17 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 State v. Sullivan · State v. Childs · State v. McKnight · State v. Kimbrell · State v. Lee
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is any direct or any substantial circumstantial evidence reasonably tending to prove the guilt of the accused, we must find that the issues were properly submitted to the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simpson · State v. Davis“On appeal from the denial of a directed verdict in a criminal case, an appellate court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the State.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simpson · State v. Davis“In order to prove constructive possession, the State must show the defendant had dominion and control, or the right to exercise dominion and control, over * either the drugs or the premises upon which the drugs are found.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis
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.