Saxton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
185 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Wesbrook v. State (2000), Zuliani v. State (2003)
185 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 · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · Arkansas Public Service Commission v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · Butler v. State · Meraz 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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In resolving the sufficiency of the evidence issue, we look not to whether the State presented evidence which refuted appellant’s self-defense testimony, but rather we determine whether after viewing all the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact would have found the essential elements of murder beyond a reasonable doubt and also would have found against appellant on the self-defense issue beyond a reasonable doubt.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. State · Wright v. State“If the issue of the existence of a defense is submitted to the jury, the court shall charge that a reasonable doubt on the issue requires that the defendant be acquitted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. State · Johnson v. State“[a] jury verdict of guilty is an implicit finding rejecting the defendant's self-defense theory”
4 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.