Sutherlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably DeGarmo v. State (1985), Marroquin v. State (1988)
70 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Burks v. United States · Doyle v. Ohio · Carlsen 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The appellate court must] view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict to determine whether any rational trier of fact could find the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State · Semento v. State“Normally, recent, unexplained possession of stolen property is a sufficient circumstance, in and of itself, to convict the possessor of stolen property of the theft of the property.... However, mere possession of stolen property does not give rise to a presumption of guilt; it is only an inference of guilt, which is not conclusive of the defendant’s guilt. Hardesty v. State, 656 S.W.2d 73 (Tex.Cr.App.1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers 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.