749 So. 2d 1015 - Hilliard v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

cited by 35 later decisions

states following

March 2007

most recently cited

35 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State · Conner v. State · 708 So. 2d 18 - Underwood 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“In determining whether a jury verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence, the court accepts as true the evidence favorable to the State.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 792 So. 2d 1000 - Gardner v. State · 811 So. 2d 355 - Wooten v. State
“Each case must be determined from the circumstances shown in the testimony and the facts must consistently point to but one conclusion-guilt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Cox v. State · 857 So. 2d 740 - Jones v. State
“Circumstantial evidence need not exclude every `possible doubt,' but only every other `reasonable' hypothesis of innocence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Cox v. State · 857 So. 2d 740 - Jones 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.