Geesa v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 754 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 766 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Brooks v. State (2010), State v. Grim (1993)
2 federal appellate · 754 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · State v. Jenks · Stovall v. Denno
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 766 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A “reasonable doubt” is a doubt based on reason and common sense after a careful and impartial consideration of all the evidence in the case. It is the kind of doubt that would make a reasonable person hesitate to act in the most important of his own affairs. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt, therefore, must be proof of such a convincing character that you would be willing to rely and act upon it without hesitation in the most important of your own affairs.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“reasonable hypothesis analytical construct”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A Jackson review, “viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution,” is not a factual sufficiency review; rather, it is an analytical tool used to determine whether there is a fact issue at all. (footnote omitted)”
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.