Melton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2016
12 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 United States v. Wade · Ohio v. Roberts · Kirby v. Illinois · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 551 So. 2d 188 - Benson 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“view[ ] all of the evidence in the light consistent with the verdict and . . . give the State all favorable inferences which may be drawn from the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is enough that the conflicting evidence presented a factual dispute for jury resolution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the light consistent with the verdict,”
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.