State v. Brighter’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably 21 Cal. 4th 935 - People v. Tufunga (1999), State v. Gaylord (1995)
54 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 People v. Butler · State v. Murphy · State v. Rocker · State v. Hardin · State v. Cannon
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . whether, upon the evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the government, and giving full play to the right of the jury to determine credibility, weigh the evidence, and draw therefrom justifiable inferences of fact, a reasonable mind might fairly conclude guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Silva · State v. Sadino““[i]t is vital to the defense, however, that the interest which the accused asserts under a claim of right must be to specific property, HRS [§ ]708—834(l)(b); State v. Martin, [ 15 Or.App. 498 , 516 P.2d 753 (1973) ], and the interest claimed by him must be in complete derogation of the victim’s rights in and to the property which is the subject of the alleged robbery, HRS [§ 3708-834(5).”[ 14 ]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In no way, obviously, can the defendants now reasonably argue that they had a bona fide claim of right to any of the property taken from Mrs. Krause. That being the case, the defendants’ requested instruction that a bona[ ]fide claim of right was a defense to theft was properly refused as there was no evidence upon which such an instruction could have been predicated. Under these circumstances, also, the trial court’s instruction to the jury that a bona[ ]fide claim of right was not a defense to robbery was at best harmless error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McMillen
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.