State v. Jacobson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2003
23 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. Mastrian · State v. Hill · State v. Klotter · State v. Morgan · State v. Kaster
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The circumstantial evidence in a criminal case is entitled to as much weight as any other kind of evidence so long as the circumstances proved are consistent with the hypothesis that the accused is guilty and inconsistent with any rational hypothesis except that of his guilt.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Race · State v. Horoshak“1. It must be shown that the evidence could not have been discovered before trial by due diligence and that the newly discovered evidence at the time of trial was not within the knowledge of the accused or is not merely cummulative. 2. It must be shown that, in the event of a new trial, the newly discovered evidence will probably produce a different or more favorable result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hagen“The general rule is that a new trial will not be granted unless the newly discovered evidence is so important “it will probably produce a different result at another trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peller v. Harris
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.