State v. Bay’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 622 So. 2d 198 - State v. Bourque (1993), 823 So. 2d 877 - State v. Bridgewater (2002)
25 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · 523 So. 2d 1305 - State v. Mussall · 385 So. 2d 248 - State v. Byrd · 404 So. 2d 466 - State v. Lindsey
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the evidence does not support the conviction, the discharge of the defendant is neither necessary nor proper if the evidence supports a conviction for a lesser included offense. State v. Byrd, 385 So.2d 248 (La.1980).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The potential deprivation of life warrants that we make the extra effort to review the record and see if we can develop a viable argument for the defendant even if the defendant fails to do so himself. Special consideration should be afforded before a life is taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the appellate court must determine that the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, was sufficient to convince a rational trier of fact that all of the elements of the crime had been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.