State v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
244 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 244 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Dechaine (1990), State v. DeLong (1986)
244 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 Dothard v. Rawlinson · State v. True · United States v. Standing Soldier · State v. Cote · Commonwealth v. Edgerly
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 244 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard to be applied to determine whether evidence is sufficient to support a jury’s conviction, is whether, based on that evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any trier of fact rationally could find beyond a reasonable doubt every element of the offense charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goodridge
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.