State v. Lankford’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
186 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably State v. Sutphin (1988), State v. Garcia (1992)
186 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 State v. Vigil · State v. Baca · State v. Lucero · State v. Parker · State v. Santillanes
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 determining whether the evidence supports a criminal charge or an essential element thereof, the appeals court must view the evidence in a light most favorable to the state, resolving all conflicts therein and indulging all permissible inferences therefrom in favor of a verdict of conviction. (Citations omitted.) The appellate court does not weigh the evidence and may not substitute its judgment for that of the jury. (Citations omitted.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McGhee · State v. Garcia
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.