757 So. 2d 335 - Collins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited
27 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 725 So. 2d 836 - Bell v. State · 719 So. 2d 180 - Dudley v. State · 607 So. 2d 1197 - Griffin v. State · 523 So. 2d 68 - Nicholson v. State · Laney 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only in those cases where the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction an unconscionable injustice will this Court disturb it on appeal.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]his Court must accept as true the evidence which supports the verdict and will reverse only when convinced that the circuit court has abused its discretion in failing to grant a new trial.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. State · Davis v. State“the benefit of all favorable inferences that may reasonably be drawn from the evidence.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. State · Davis 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.