Butler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
435 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 438 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Clewis v. State (1996), Geesa v. State (1991)
435 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Holland v. United States · Moreno v. State · Carlsen v. State · Wilson 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 438 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... The court is never to make its own myopic determination of guilt from reading the cold record. It is not the reviewing court’s duty to disregard, realign or weigh evidence. This the fact finder has already done. The fact finder, best positioned to consider all the evidence first-hand, viewing the valuable and significant demeanor and expression of the witnesses, has reached a verdict beyond a reasonable doubt. Such a verdict must stand unless it is found to be irrational or unsupported by ... the evidence, with such evidence being viewed under the Jackson light.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Turro v. State“outstanding reasonable hypothesis theory”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Turro 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.