Heiney v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

126

cited by 126 later decisions

states following

December 2018

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 122 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 559 So. 2d 187 - State v. Law (1989), Hunter v. State (1995)

2 federal appellate · 122 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 Estelle v. Williams · Whalen v. United States · Albernaz v. United States · Rodriguez v. New York · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp.

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

“[t]he question of whether the evidence fails to exclude all reasonable hypotheses of innocence is for the jury to determine, and where there is substantial, competent evidence to support the jury verdict, we will not reverse a judgment based upon a verdict returned by the jury.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Evans v. State · Lincoln v. State
“casts light upon the character of the act under investigation by showing motive, intent, absence of mistake, common scheme, identity or a system or general pattern of criminality so that the evidence of the prior offenses would have a relevant or a material bearing on some essential aspect of the offense being tried.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 780 So. 2d 94 - Robertson v. State · 547 So. 2d 111 - Castro v. State
“inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Larkins v. State · 472 So. 2d 1174 - Toole 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.