891 So. 2d 256 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barnes v. State · Weathersby v. State · Doris R. Edwards, Etc., Cross-Appellant v. Sears, Roebuck and Company, Cross-Appellees · Culbreath v. Johnson · 549 So. 2d 1316 - Gray v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“where the defendant or the defendant's witnesses are the only eyewitnesses to the homicide, their version, if reasonable, must be accepted as true, unless substantially contradicted in material particulars by a credible witness or witnesses for the state, or by the physical facts or by the facts of common knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A reasonable, hypothetical juror could have been convinced that there was no need to continue aiming the shotgun at [the victim], as he presented no reasonably imminent threat in his unarmed, prone, and seriously wounded state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] Weathersby challenge is, essentially, a test of the sufficiency of the evidence.”
1 later decision 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.