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← 716 N.W.2d 647 - State v. Colbert

State v. Colbert’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · State v. Griller · State v. Wahlberg · State v. Leake · State v. MacLennan

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

  1. “Viewing the evidence as a whole in the light most favorable to the jury's verdict, we conclude that the evidence leads so directly to [defendant's] guilt as to exclude, beyond a reasonable doubt, any reasonable inference other than guilt.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the jury was free to, and evidently did, reject”
    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.