97 So. 3d 575 - State v. Ennis’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Harris v. McRae · 448 So. 2d 676 - State v. Captville · State v. Williams · 796 So. 2d 649 - State v. Neal
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Two or more offenses may be charged in the same indictment or information in a separate count for each offense if the offenses charged, whether felonies or misdemeanors, are of the same or similar character or are based on the same act or transaction or on two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan; provided that the offenses joined must be triable by the same mode of trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When circumstantial evidence is used to prove the commission of the offense, La. R.S. 15:438 requires that 'assuming every fact to be proved that the evidence tends to prove, in order to convict, it must exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams“must determine that the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, was sufficient to convince a rational trier of fact that all of the elements of the crime had been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.