State v. Means’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
September 1988
most recently cited
23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Roberts v. Louisiana · State v. Johnson · State v. Chase · State v. Puckett
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the facts and circumstances relied upon to establish guilt must be consistent with each other ... and exclude every reasonable hypothesis of defendant’s innocence, but need not be absolutely conclusive of guilt, or demonstrate impossibility of innocence. The mere existence of other possible hypotheses is not enough to remove the case from the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wade
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.