Minor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Batson v. Kentucky · Hernandez v. New York · Purkett v. Elem
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ircumstantial evidence of a defendant's identity need not exclude every conceivable inference or hypothesis-only those that are reasonable. To set aside the conviction it is not sufficient that the circumstantial evidence show that the act might by bare possibility have been done by somebody else.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. WILSON v. the STATE.“circumstantial evidence of identity may be sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find a defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. WILSON v. the STATE.
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.