368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
510 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 514 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 391 So. 2d 133 - Dolvin v. State (1980), 447 So. 2d 199 - Willis v. State (1983)
510 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 Odom v. United States · Riggs v. United States · Roberts v. United States · United States v. Black · United States v. McGlamory
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 514 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing a conviction based on circumstantial evidence, this court must view that evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution. The test to be applied is whether the jury might reasonably find that the evidence excluded every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt; not whether such evidence excludes every reasonable hypothesis but guilt, but whether a jury might reasonably so conclude.”
146 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. State · Edwards v. State“While not alone sufficient to justify a conviction, motive may strengthen circumstantial evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'A false explanation given by the accused of any suspicious fact or circumstance tending to connect him [or her] with the offense is admissible in evidence against him [or her]. . . . The jury may properly consider conflicting statements as indicating a consciousness of guilt.'”
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.