438 So. 2d 279 - Gandy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2002
23 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 · Davis v. Mississippi · 380 So. 2d 1276 - Gathright v. State · 428 So. 2d 1361 - Pearson v. State · 278 So. 2d 384 - Glass v. State
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before a warrantless yet lawful arrest could be made, it was not necessary that ... [the police] have reasonably believed beyond a reasonable doubt that .. . [the defendant] was involved in a cocaine deal .. . [The police] need only have entertained a reasonable belief that ... [the defendant] was involved a belief rising above mere unfounded suspicion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Except as authorized by this article, it is unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally: (1) To ... possess with intent to sell, barter, transfer, manufacture, distribute or dispense, a controlled substance; ... ... . (b) Any person who violates subsection (a) of this section shall be sentenced as follows: (1) In the case of controlled substances classified in schedule I or II, as set out in sections 41-29-113 and 41-29-115, ... such person may, upon conviction, be imprisoned for not more than thirty (30) years or fined not more than one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) or both;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. State“Once the jury has returned a verdict of guilty in a criminal case, we are not at liberty to direct that the defendant be discharged short of a conclusion on our part that on 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.”
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.