555 So. 2d 352 - Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 575 So. 2d 181 - Jackson v. State (1991), Finney v. State (1995)
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 351 So. 2d 972 - McArthur v. State · 90 So. 2d 629 - Davis v. State · King v. Florida · 71 So. 2d 899 - Mayo v. State · 539 So. 2d 473 - Florida Bar v. Newhouse
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.
“[O]ne accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proved guilty beyond and to the exclusion of a reasonable doubt. It is the responsibility of the State to carry this burden. When the State relies upon purely circumstantial evidence to convict an accused, we have always required that such evidence must not only be consistent with the defendant's guilt but it must also be inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable and moral certainty that the accused and no one else committed the offense charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although state witnesses cast doubt on Cox' alibi, the state's evidence could have created only a suspicion, rather than proving beyond a reasonable doubt, that Cox, and only Cox, murdered the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ballard 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.