761 So. 2d 944 - Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
September 2005
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 697 So. 2d 777 - Coleman v. State · 587 So. 2d 848 - Holland v. State · 568 So. 2d 1173 - Roundtree 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is whether there is any reasonable inference of likely tampering with or substitution of evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Once the jury has returned a verdict of guilty in a criminal case, we are not at liberty to direct that the defendant be discharged short of a conclusion on our part that given the evidence, taken in the light most favorable to the verdict, no reasonable, hypothetical juror could find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty. This Court will reverse only where one or more elements of the offense are not proven.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] motion for new trial is discretionary with the trial judge and this Court will not order a new trial unless it is convinced that the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction an unconscionable injustice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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