State v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 52 Ohio App. 2d 1 - State v. Craft (1977), State v. Hoglund (1990)
70 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Glasser v. United States · Wong Sun v. United States · Escobedo v. Illinois · Griffin v. California
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The test on appeal is not whether guilt is established beyond a reasonable doubt, but whether there is substantial evidence to support the conclusion of the trier of fact." 49 Haw. at 533 , 423 P.2d at 445 , quoting from State v. Tamanaha, 46 Haw. 245, 251 , 377 P.2d 688, 692 (1962).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kekaualua · State v. Smith“a jury verdict in any case involving conflicting evidence and depending on the determination of credibility of witnesses or the weight of the evidence is invulnerable when attacked on appeal if there is any substantial evidence amounting to more than a mere scintilla tending to support the findings necessary to the verdict rendered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . [I]n reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction the appellate court “must take that view of the evidence with inferences reasonably and justifiably to be drawn therefrom most favorable to the Gov- eminent, without weighing the evidence or determining the credibility of the witnesses. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.