Grover v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2013
11 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 559 So. 2d 187 - State v. Law · 351 So. 2d 972 - McArthur v. State · State v. Waters · 492 So. 2d 1344 - Fowler v. State · 436 So. 2d 196 - Francis 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.
“It is black-letter of course that intent, being a state of mind, is rarely if ever susceptible of direct proof. Almost inevitably, as here, it must be shown solely by circumstantial evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The ultimate question devolves here then as to whether a jury may be permitted to consider a single set of circumstances, which are at once susceptible of opposing reasonable hypotheses on the issue of guilt or innocence in a criminal case, and return a verdict of guilty based on their view of the more reasonable of the two. Clearly not, since it is the tendency to establish one fact to the exclusion of contrary facts which gives circumstantial evidence the force of proof in the first place; and when circumstances are reasonably susceptible of two conflicting inferences they are probative of neither. There simply would be no “proof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown 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.