385 So. 2d 248 - State v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 160 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 523 So. 2d 1305 - State v. Mussall (1988), 603 So. 2d 731 - State v. Hearold (1992)
2 federal appellate · 160 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 · 65 Cal. 2d 41 - People v. Ford · 337 So. 2d 475 - State v. McCarroll · State v. Craig · State v. Levi
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Since all the elements of the lesser and included offense ... have been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, this court should not strike down all of those adequately supported findings merely because the evidence did not reasonably support the conclusion that an additional element also existed."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“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.”
4 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.