Gillard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Kinsey v. State (2016), 2010 Ark. App. 111 - Price v. State (2010)
34 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 Pyle v. State · Navarro v. State · Webb v. State · Bell v. State · Pratt 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] motion merely stating that the evidence is insufficient does not preserve for appellate purposes issues relating to a specific deficiency, such as insufficient proof on the elements of the offense[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We treat a motion for directed verdict as a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence. We have repeatedly held that in reviewing a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, we view the evidence in a light most favorable to the State and consider only the evidence -that supports the verdict. We affirm a conviction if substantial evidence exists to support it. Substantial evidence is that which is of sufficient force and character that it will, with reasonable certainty, compel a conclusion one way. or the other, without resorting to speculation or conjecture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cartwright v. State“steadfast in our holdings that ... we will not address the merits of an appellant's insufficiency argument where the directed-verdict motion is not specific.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds v. 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.