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← 331 MD 324 - Denson v. State

Denson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 2012
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on MacK v. State · West v. State · Wilson v. State · Poole v. State · Compton v. New Mexico

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““that the proposition that a conviction based solely on circumstantial evidence cannot stand unless the circumstances are inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis of innocence is a matter of evidentiary sufficiency [for the court’s determination], rather than a proper subject of jury instructions.””
    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.