Cain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
460 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 460 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Johnson v. State (2000), Brooks v. State (2010)
460 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 · Clewis v. State · Pool v. Ford Motor Co. · Gee v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. · Omohundro v. Matthews
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 460 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.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hyett v. State · Butler v. State“court must defer to jury findings, and may find the evidence factually insufficient only where necessary to prevent manifest injustice”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. State · Wright v. State“so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence as to be clearly wrong and unjust,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.