Beverly v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2017
24 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 Illinois v. Gates · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Bieghler v. State · Denton v. State · Smith 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not necessary that every reasonable hypothesis of innocence has been overcome, but only that an inference which supports the jury verdiet may be reasonably drawn. Evidence of the illegal possession of a relatively large quantity of drugs is sufficient to sustain a conviction for possession with intent to deliver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hazzard v. State“The law presumes that a judge is unbiased and unprejudiced in matters which come before him. The record must show actual bias and prejudice against the defendant before a conviction will be reversed on the ground that the trial judge should have been so disqualified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. May 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.