520 So. 2d 78 - Torres v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2009
7 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 Hudson v. Palmer · Textile Workers Union v. Darlington Manufacturing Co. · 351 So. 2d 972 - McArthur v. State · Brown v. State · 90 So. 2d 629 - Davis 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Florida law, where there is no direct evidence of guilt and the state seeks a conviction based wholly upon circumstantial evidence, no matter how strongly the evidence may suggest guilt, a conviction cannot be sustained unless the evidence is inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis of innocence. The basic proposition of our law is that one accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proved guilty beyond and to the exclusion of a reasonable doubt, and it is the responsibility of the state to carry this burden_ It would be impermissible to allow the state to meet its burden through a succession of inferences that required a pyramiding of assumptions in order to arrive at the conclusion necessary for a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[m]ere proximity to contraband, without more, is legally insufficient to prove possession”
1 later decision 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.