State v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
254 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 254 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Syriani (1993), State v. Crawford (1996)
254 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. Earnhardt · State v. Braswell · State v. Smith
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 254 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is whether there is substantial evidence (1) of each essential element of the offense charged and (2) that defendant is the perpetrator of the offense.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any contradictions or discrepancies arising from the evidence are properly left for the jury to resolve and do not warrant dismissal.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here the trial court erroneously submits the case to the jury on alternative theories, one of which is not supported by the evidence ..., and [ ] it cannot be discerned from the record upon which theory or theories the jury relied in arriving at its verdict, the error entitles [a] defendant to a new trial.”
7 later decisions 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.