772 So. 2d 78 - State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
253 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Energy Cooperative, Inc. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · 523 So. 2d 1305 - State v. Mussall · 448 So. 2d 676 - State v. Captville · 445 So. 2d 1198 - State v. Wright
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 253 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not determine whether another possible hypothesis suggested by a defendant could afford an exculpatory explanation of the events.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage“that state of mind which exists when the circumstances indicate that the offender actively desired the prescribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Runyon · State v. Thompson“appellate court is constitutionally precluded from acting as a `thirteenth juror' in assessing what weight to give evidence in criminal cases; that determination rests solely on the sound discretion of the trier of fact.”
7 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.