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← 402 SC 389 - State v. Gilliland

State v. Gilliland’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Wilson · State v. Weston · State v. Cherry · Sheppard v. State · State v. Pinckney

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

  1. “An appellate court reviews the denial of a directed verdict by viewing the evidence and all reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the State.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “'[W]hen the [circumstantial] evidence presented merely raises a suspicion of guilt,' the trial court should direct a verdict in favor of the accused.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “A mere suspicion is a belief that is inspired by 'facts or circumstances which do not amount to proof.'”
    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.