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428 So. 2d 1361 - Pearson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

122
cited by 122 later decisions
2
states following
August 2016
most recently cited

122 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State (1987), 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State (1984)

122 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 · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Mooney v. Holohan

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

  1. “convinced that the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that, to allow it to stand, would be to sanction an unconscionable injustice.”
    25 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Burrell v. State · Pharr v. State
  2. “not at liberty to direct that the defendant be discharged short of a conclusion... that given the evidence, taken in the light most favorable to the verdict, no reasonable hypothetical juror could find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty.”
    12 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Toncrey v. State · Steed v. State
  3. “[i]t is absolutely impermissible that a trial judge imposing sentence enhance the sentence imposed because the defendant refused a plea bargain and put the state and the court to the trouble of trial by jury.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wade v. State · 497 So. 2d 67 - McGilvery v. State

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.