408 So. 2d 1302 - State v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 414 So. 2d 306 - State v. Fuller (1982), 505 So. 2d 714 - State v. Brooks (1987)
50 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · State v. Sonnier · 343 So. 2d 118 - State v. Glover · 403 So. 2d 1157 - State v. Petterway
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vaughn · State v. Simpson“the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vaughn · State v. Simpson“"Defendant argues that the killing did not occur in the course of an armed robbery because the robbery occurred several blocks away and had been completed before McDonald shot the victim. We are not persuaded by this line of reasoning. The armed robbery and the shooting which followed constituted essentially a single criminal incident. The offenders never left the victim; instead they escorted her from the scene of the armed robbery to the location where the shooting took place. Under these circumstances it is apparent that the killing occurred as part of the armed robbery."”
3 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.