Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 state decisions

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

1. “[T]his Court examines the evidence in the light most favorable to the State. We accept all evidence favorable to the State as true and give the State's evidence every favorable inference which can reasonably and fairly be drawn from it. We also disregard any evidence favorable to the appellant that conflicts with the State's evidence.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jordin v. State · Volpi v. State

2. “[w]e do not consider "whether or not the evidence was sufficient to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but [instead] whether or not the evidence could reasonably support such a finding by the factfinder." Hill v. State , 2016 WY 27 , ¶ 13, 371 P.3d 553 , 558 (Wyo. 2016). "We will not reweigh the evidence nor will we re-examine the credibility of the witnesses." Hill , 2016 WY 27 , ¶ 12, 371 P.3d at 558 . We review the sufficiency of the evidence "from this perspective because we defer to the jury as the fact-finder and assume they believed only the evidence adverse to the defendant since they found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." Oldman [ v. State ], 2015 WY 121 , ¶ 5, 359 P.3d [964,] 966 [ (Wyo. 2015) ].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jordin v. State

3. “the proposition that a defendant's guilt must be proved with competent evidence bearing upon each of the crime's elements always involves a fundamental right.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Haskell v. State