Butler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably 599 So. 2d 951 - Ormond v. State (1992), 618 So. 2d 116 - Stromas v. State (1993)
34 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Minnick v. Mississippi · McFee v. State · United States v. Cardenas · Heidel 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“never required the proponent to produce every person who handled the object, nor to account for every moment of every day.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pittman v. State · Lewis v. State“sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. State · Robinson v. State“[Rule] 901(a) allow[s] receipt of the cocaine as evidence against [the defendant] if — and only if — all of the evidence, giving the prosecution the benefit of all favorable inferences that may reasonably be drawn therefrom, is such that reasonable and fair-minded jurors, having in mind the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt burden of proof standard, in the exercise of impartial judgment, may have reached different conclusions whether [the defendant] delivered it to [the confidential informant]. The question is not whether the trial court finds beyond a reasonable doubt [the defendant] delivered the cocaine, but whether a jury may so find. Only if the facts and inferences so considered point in favor of the accused with sufficient force that all reasonable men would have a reasonable doubt, should admission be denied.”
2 later decisions 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.