375 So. 2d 1165 - State v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 523 So. 2d 1305 - State v. Mussall (1988), State v. Richardson (1983)
69 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Burks v. United States · Cole v. State of Arkansas · 343 So. 2d 712 - State v. Elzie
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gatson · State v. Custard“Thus, in Jackson , the United States Supreme Court held that due process requirements of the federal constitution are offended by a lesser standard of review than that enunciated by it. Although the issue arose in terms of federal habeas review, the Jackson holding also applies, inferentially, to state or federal direct review, where due process would be equally offended by a lesser standard.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gatson · State v. Ruple“determine whether the record evidence could reasonably support a finding of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions 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.