Goodman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

79 state decisions

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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a reviewing court conducting a factual sufficiency analysis necessarily considers any reasonable alternative hypotheses raised by the evidence. The very nature of a factual sufficiency review requires the court to consider all of the evidence presented at trial and not just that which is favorable to the verdict. Therefore, if the evidence suggests the existence of a reasonable alternative hypothesis, the court cannot ignore it and still properly perform the analysis required under Clewis . However, the mere existence of an alternative reasonable hypothesis does not render the evidence factually insufficient.... [E]ven when an appellant identifies an alternative reasonable hypothesis raised by the evidence, the standard of review remains the same. A verdict may be overturned only if it is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence as to be clearly wrong and unjust.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Harris v. State

2. “[A]n appellate court must first be able to say, with some objective basis in the record, that the great weight and preponderance of the ... evidence contradicts the jury's verdict before it is justified in”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnson v. State

3. “[I]t is a jury, not a reviewing court, that accepts or rejects reasonably equal competing theories of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnson v. State