Vaughn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Livingston v. State (1987), Gaddis v. State (1988)
2 federal appellate · 64 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 Edwards v. State · Jackson v. State · Flores v. State · Stogsdill v. State · Easley 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... It is enough if the conclusion is warranted by the combined and cumulative force of all the incriminating circumstances. The rules of circumstantial evidence do not require that the circumstances should to a moral certainty actually exclude every hypothesis that the act may have been committed by another person; the rules are that every reasonable hypothesis consistent with the circumstances and facts proved be excluded to a moral certainty. Furthermore, such reasonable hypothesis that the act may have been committed by another person must not be out of harmony with the evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““[I]t is the province of the jury to judge the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given their testimony and it may resolve or reconcile conflicts in the testimony, accepting or rejecting such portions thereof as it sees fit ... In reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction, we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict. In doing so, the verdict will be sustained if there is any evidence which, if believed, shows the guilt of the accused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Combs v. State“(a) This State has jurisdiction over an offense that a person commits by his own conduct or the conduct of another for which he is criminally responsible if: (1) either the conduct or a result that is an element of the offense occurs inside this State; [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Burns 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.