Pharr v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Stringer v. State (1986), 551 So. 2d 165 - Davis v. State (1989)
57 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 Blockburger v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Missouri v. Hunter · Ohio v. Johnson · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Horton v. State · Burt v. State“so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction an unconscionable injustice.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Horton v. State · Peoples v. State“However, the evidence should be weighed in the light most favorable to the verdict. A reversal on the grounds that the verdict was against the overwhelming weight of the evidence, unlike a reversal based on insufficient evidence, does not mean that acquittal was the only proper verdict. Rather, as the “thirteenth juror,” the court simply disagrees with the jury’s resolution of the conflicting testimony. This difference of opinion does not signify acquittal any more than a disagreement among the jurors themselves. Instead, the proper remedy is to grant a new trial.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Horton v. State · Steele 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.