728 So. 2d 691 - Farrior v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Hall v. State (1999), 808 So. 2d 1148 - Taylor v. State (2000)
100 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Batson v. Kentucky · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Colorado v. Connelly
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The test used in determining the sufficiency of evidence to sustain a conviction is whether, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, a rational finder of fact could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
43 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Powers v. State · Stoves v. State“`When there is legal evidence from which the jury could, by fair inference, find the defendant guilty, the trial court should submit [the case] to the jury, and, in such a case, this court will not disturb the trial court's decision.'”
42 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Powers v. State · Stoves v. State“may be inferred from the character of the assault, the use of a deadly weapon and other attendant circumstances.”
6 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.