State v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
237 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 796 So. 2d 649 - State v. Neal (2001), 750 So. 2d 832 - State v. Snyder (1999)
237 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 · Pulley v. Harris · Doerr v. Doerr · Tison v. Arizona · Golden Pacific Bancorp 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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assuming every fact to be proved that the evidence tends to prove, in order to convict, it must exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eskano · State v. Austin“A. First degree murder is the killing of a human being: (1) When the offender has specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm and is engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of ... aggravated burglary ... (5) When the offender has the specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm upon a victim who is ... sixty-five years of age or older.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ll persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether present or absent, and whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, aid and abet in its commission, or directly or indirectly counsel or procure another to commit the crime, are principals.”
3 later decisions 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.