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399 So. 2d 158 - State v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

95
cited by 95 later decisions
2
states following
March 2015
most recently cited

94 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably 445 So. 2d 1198 - State v. Wright (1984), State v. Shapiro (1983)

94 state decisions

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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 · Commonwealth v. Mangini · State v. Simms · 395 So. 2d 647 - State v. Gould · State v. McGlathery

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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “when we review a conviction based upon circumstantial evidence we must determine that, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, a rational trier of fact could have concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that every reasonable hypothesis of innocence had been excluded.”
    17 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Kersey · State v. Parker
  2. “... Frequently, the state must rely on circumstantial evidence to prove the existence of the fact to be proved. Circumstantial evidence consists of proof of collateral facts and circumstances from which the existence of the main fact may be inferred according to reason and common experience.... (footnote omitted)”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 802 So. 2d 43 - State v. MM · 410 So. 2d 749 - State v. Bindom
  3. “any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 419 So. 2d 837 - State v. Jackson

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.