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← 721 SO2D 1130 - Barnes v. State

Barnes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 2016
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on McClain v. State · 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 607 So. 2d 1197 - Griffin v. State · Isaac 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “On appeal, this Court does not retry the facts, but must take the view of the evidence most favorable to the State and must assume that the fact-finder believed the State's witnesses and disbelieved any contradictory evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[a] fact finder is in the best position to evaluate circumstantial evidence surrounding the crime, and its verdict is entitled to due deference.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “The evidence as a whole need not exclude all possibility that the defendant is innocent, it must only make such theory seem unreasonable.”
    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.