Clewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1,105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,112 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Johnson v. State (2000), Brooks v. State (2010)
2 federal appellate · 1,105 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 · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · In Re King's Estate · Tibbs v. Florida · Pool v. Ford Motor Co.
Cited together with Jackson v. Virginia · Johnson v. State · Strickland v. Washington · Cain v. State · Geesa 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 1,112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the light most favorable to the prosecution”
18 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. State · Whitaker v. State“so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence as to be clearly wrong and unjust.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Appellate courts should only exercise their fact jurisdiction to prevent a manifestly unjust result; ... those courts ‘are not free to reweigh the evidence and set aside a jury verdict merely because the judges feel that a different result is more reasonable.’”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Johnson v. State · Fiedler 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.