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← 342 GAAPP 849 - Atkins v. State

Atkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · White v. State · Walker v. State · Manuel v. State · Choisnet v. State

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. “we view the evidence in a light favorable to the jury's verdict. Weighing the evidence and determining witness credibility are beyond the purview of this [C]ourt. We simply assess whether the evidence was sufficient to find [Meddings] guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the verdict of a jury is found contrary to evidence and the principles of justice and equity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “to let no verdict stand unless your conscience approves it.”
    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.