548 So. 2d 647 - Knight v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2006
12 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 Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · Enmund v. Florida · Day 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conviction will not be set aside on the basis of sufficiency unless, 'allowing all reasonable presumptions for its correctness, the preponderance of the evidence against the verdict is so decided as to clearly convince this Court that it was wrong and unjust.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Circumstantial evidence that points to the guilt of the accused is entitled to the same weight as direct evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The standard of review in determining sufficiency of evidence is whether evidence existed at the time the appellant's motion for acquittal was made, from which the jury could by fair inference find the accused guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker 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.