Overton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 1981
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Marable v. State · 1 Tenn. Crim. App. 1 - Webster v. State · 3 Tenn. Crim. App. 256 - Pruitt v. State · Bailey v. State · 1 Tenn. Crim. App. 116 - Hancock 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence must be not only consistent with the guilt of the accused but it must also be inconsistent with his innocence and must exclude every other reasonable theory or hypothesis except that of guilt, and it must establish such a certainty of guilt of the accused as to convince the mind beyond a reasonable doubt that he is the one who committed the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ramsey 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.