State v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Smith v. State (1995), Commonwealth v. Woodward (1998)
37 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 Woodson v. North Carolina · Gardner v. Florida · Crane v. Kentucky · Skipper v. South Carolina · Clemons v. Mississippi
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his court reviews questions of the sufficiency of the evidence * * * by examining the evidence in the light most favorable to the state to determine whether a rational trier of fact, accepting reasonable inferences and reasonable credibility choices, could have found the essential element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. * * * This court's decision is not whether we believe that defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but whether the evidence is sufficient for the jury to so find.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a rational trier of fact * * * could have found the essential element[s] of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether, after viewing the facts in the light most favorable to the state, a rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision 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.