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702 So. 2d 380 - Shields v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
2
states following
April 2018
most recently cited

43 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Cox v. State (2003), 971 So. 2d 581 - Williams v. State (2007)

43 state decisions

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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 Barnes v. United States · Wright v. West · Vick v. United States · Jones v. State · 557 So. 2d 542 - Griffin 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “1. The temporal proximity of the possession to the crime to be inferred; 2. The number or percentage of the fruits of the crime possessed; 3. The nature of the possession in terms of whether there is an attempt at concealment or any other evidence of guilty knowledge; 4. Whether an explanation is given and whether that explanation is plausible or demonstrably false.”
    18 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Charles Naylor v. State of Mississippi · Jones v. State
  2. “whether a rational fact finder might reasonably conclude that the evidence excludes every reasonable hypothesis inconsistent with guilt of the crime charged.”
    11 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hobbs v. State · Jackson v. State
  3. “[t]he circumstances of possession and the presence or absence of evidence of participation in the crime other than mere possession must be viewed.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Charles Naylor v. State of Mississippi · 994 So. 2d 191 - Presley 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.