People v. Brassfield’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Kogan v. People (1988), People v. Bartowsheski (1983)
38 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 · Brown v. Ohio · Tibbs v. Florida · United States v. Scott · Ball v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is the jury which should decide the difficult questions of witness credibility and the weight to be given to conflicting items of evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Parks · People v. West““must determine whether the evidence before the jury is sufficient in both quantity and quality to submit the issue of the defendant’s guilt or innocence to the jury. [[Image here]] “The issue before the trial judge is whether the relevant evidence, both direct and circumstantial, when viewed as a whole and in the light most favorable to the prosecution, is substantial and sufficient to support a conclusion by a reasonable mind that the defendant is guilty of the charge beyond a reasonable doubt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d] ouble jeopardy principles ‘prohibit [ ] a retrial where an appellate court reverses a conviction solely for lack of sufficient evidence to sustain the jury's verdict,’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.