972 So. 2d 982 - Siplin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2014
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United States v. Salerno · Tibbs v. Florida · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · 397 So. 2d 1120 - Tibbs 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the only proof of guilt is circumstantial, no matter how strongly the evidence may suggest guilt, a conviction cannot be sustained unless the evidence is inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Page 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.