State v. Ashley’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Johnson v. Righetti · Domby v. United States · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Federal Power Commission
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'to support a conviction of circumstantial evidence, it is not necessary to exclude every hypothesis of innocence.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davi · State v. Shaw“In determining the sufficiency of the evidence on appeal in a criminal case, the issue before this court is whether there is evidence in the record which, if believed by the jury, is sufficient to sustain a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davi
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.