Isaac v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

cited by 48 later decisions

states following

March 2016

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Jackson v. State (1996), 877 So. 2d 1254 - Lynch v. State (2004)

2 federal appellate · 46 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 Burks v. United States · 391 So. 2d 601 - Bullock v. State · 616 So. 2d 298 - Noe v. State · 530 So. 2d 694 - Davis v. State · 606 So. 2d 1132 - Parker 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“In determining whether or not a jury verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence, this Court must accept as true the evidence which supports the verdict and will reverse only when it is convinced that the circuit court has abused its discretion in failing to grant a new trial.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Pool v. State · Brown v. State
“unless convinced that the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that, to allow it to stand, would be to sanction an unconscionable injustice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Jones v. State · Barnes v. State
“the state is required to `prove the accused's guilt not only beyond a reasonable doubt, but to the exclusion of every other hypothesis consistent with innocence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Jackson v. State · 672 So. 2d 468 - Jackson 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.