Eatherton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024
17 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 Blockburger v. United States · Burks v. United States · Ashe v. Swenson · Brown v. Ohio · Rideout v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Too many possibilities exist, and any delineation of the possible reasons for the jury verdict would reveal “the impracticality, if not infeasibility, of adjudging what ‘facts’ were resolved by the jury in favor of the defendants.” United States v. Mulherin, 529 F.Supp. 916, 939 (S.D.Ga.1981), aff'd 710 F.2d 731 (11th Cir.1983) * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arevalo v. State“A person is guilty of burglary if, without authority, he enters or remains in a building, occupied structure or vehicle, or separately secured or occupied portion thereof, with intent to commit larceny or a felony therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Collins v. State“by assisting the jury in its assessment of the significance of the evidence of another crime with the knowledge that at another time and place a duly constituted tribunal ... concluded that [the defendant] was not guilty”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hess 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.