655 So. 2d 1091 - Ex Parte Smiley’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2016
7 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 · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · 387 So. 2d 280 - Gunn v. State · Ex Parte Gunn
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[W]hether a jury might reasonably find that the evidence excluded every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt; not whether the evidence excludes every reasonable hypothesis but guilt, but rather whether a jury might reasonably conclude that it does. . . . Stated differently, to support the jury's verdict of guilty, circumstantial evidence and reasonable inferences therefrom have to be inconsistent with any rational hypothesis of innocence."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A person’s mere presence at the time and place of a crime is not sufficient to justify a conviction for the commission of the crime. However, a person’s presence at the time and place where a crime is committed, along with other facts and circumstances tending to connect that person with the offense, may be enough to support a conviction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevens 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.