State v. LaRoche’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Oliveira (2005), State v. Disla (2005)
1 district · 37 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 Wrenn v. McFadden · Lawson v. Credithrift of America · D'Onofrio v. D'Onofrio · State v. Caruolo · State v. Infantolino
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘We have held that a trial justice, when presented with a motion for judgment of acquittal, ‘must determine whether the evidence offered by the state is capable of generating proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.’ State v. Harnois, 638 A.2d 532, 536 (R.I.1994) (quoting State v. Caruolo, 524 A.2d 575, 580-81 (R.I.1987)). In making that determination, the trial justice is confined in his analysis of the state’s evidence to view the trial evidence in the light most favorable to the state, without weighing or evaluating the evidence, or assessing the credibility of the trial witnesses. State v. Clark, 603 A.2d 1094, 1097 (R.I.1992). He or she must draw all reasonable inferences from the evidence that are consistent with the defendant’s guilt and in favor of the state when passing upon the motion. In addition, the trial justice is required to view only that evidence that the prosecution claims is capable of supporting proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. State v. Wilshire, 509 A.2d 444, 452 (R.I.1986), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 1037 , 107 S.Ct. 891 , 93 L.Ed.2d 843 (1987). If the evidence, when viewed in such a light, is sufficient to warrant a guilty finding by the jury, the trial justice must deny the motion. See State v. Mattatall, 603 A.2d 1098, 1105 (R.I.1992); Clark, 603 A.2d at 1097-98 . This Court applies the same standard on appellate review as that utilized by the trial justice. State v.. Mollicone, 654 A.2d 311, 319 (R.I.1995); State v. Henshaw, 557 A.2d 1204, 120”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Andrades“A motion to pass a case is viewed for all intents and purposes as identical to a motion for a mistrial.”
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.