Weaver v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2018
11 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 Rideout v. United States · Yagow v. United States · Loyd v. State · Case v. State · Johnson 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the witness is not testifying as an expert, the witness’s testimony in the form of opinions or inferences is limited to those opinions or inferences which are (a) rationally based on the perception of the witness and (b) helpful to a clear understanding of the witness’s testimony or the determination of a fact in issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When addressing a sufficiency of the evidence issue, we will affirm the conviction if, considering only the probabative evidence and reasonable inferences supporting the verdict, without weighing evidence or assessing witness credibility, we conclude that a reasonable trier of fact could find each element of the charged crime proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gambill v. State“[wJhile opinion testimony 'is not objectionable merely because it embraces an ultimate issue to be decided by the trier of fact, [] witnesses may not testify as to opinions concerning intent or legal conclusions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gall 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.