Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Ridling v. State (2005), State v. Albino (2011)
2 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 · Wainwright v. State · Commonwealth v. Johnson · Probst v. State · Deputy 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T Ihe word 'victim' should not be used in a case where the commission of a crime is in dispute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Z.W. v. Foster · People v. Dinapoli“the term 'victim,' to law enforcement officers, is a term of art synonymous with 'complaining witness.' " Jackson at 24-25 . Thus, courts have found a lack of prejudice where a law enforcement officer uses the term "victim”
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.