Tibbs v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
289 federal appellate · 60 district · 5,035 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,603 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Thompkins (1997), 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin (1983)
289 federal appellate · 60 district · 5,035 state decisions — followed in 41 states
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 · North Carolina v. Pearce · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Burks v. United States
Cited together with Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Thompkins · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · Burks v. United States · State v. Jenks
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 5,603 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a court of appeals reverses a judgment of a trial court on the basis that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence, the appellate court sits as a 'thirteenth juror' and disagrees with the factfinder's resolution of the conflicting testimony.”
217 later decisions quote this exact passage“the inclination of the greater amount of credible evidence , offered in a trial, to support one side of the issue rather than the other. It indicates clearly to the jury that the party having the burden of proof will be entitled to their verdict, if, on weighing the evidence in their minds, they shall find the greater amount of credible evidence sustains the issue which is to be established before them. Weight is not a question of mathematics, but depends on its effect in inducing belief. " (Emphasis added.) Id. at 377, quoting Black's Law Dictionary (6 Ed. 1990), at 1594. When an appellant challenges a conviction based on the weight of the evidence, the court must review the entire record, weigh the evidence and "all reasonable inferences,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the meaning attached to an ambiguous prior reversal is a matter of state law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.