460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
329 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 330 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 895 So. 2d 836 - Bush v. State (2005), McClain v. State (1993)
329 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 Tibbs v. Florida · State v. Kelly · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · Barnes 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 330 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“point in favor of the defendant on any element of the offense with sufficient force that reasonable men could not have found beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty,”
78 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Roach v. State · Townsend v. State“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.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Drake v. State · Pharr v. State“A greater quantum of evidence favoring the State is necessary for the State to withstand a motion for a new trial, as distinguished from a motion for j.n.o.v. Under our established case law, the trial judge should set aside a jury's verdict only when, in the exercise of his sound discretion, he is convinced that the verdict is contrary to the substantial weight of the evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burt v. State · Johnson 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.