503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
447 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 448 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 895 So. 2d 836 - Bush v. State (2005), McClain v. State (1993)
447 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 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · Barnes v. State · Weathersby 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 448 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the benefit of all favorable inferences that may reasonably be drawn from the evidence.”
134 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hart v. State · Barker v. State“In determining whether a jury verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence, the court accepts as true the evidence favorable to the State.”
66 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. White v. State · Gordon v. State“Since each requires consideration of the evidence before the court when made, this Court properly reviews the ruling on the last occasion the challenge was made in the trial court. This occurred when the Circuit Court overruled [the] motion for JNOV.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.