7 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 35 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Stone v. State.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stone v. State Anchor | green | “when their jurisdiction to review fact questions is properly invoked, the courts of appeals cannot ignore constitutional and statutory mandates.” | 5 |
| 2 | Tibbs v. State | green | “cast serious doubt on her believability” | 5 |
| 3 | Tibbs v. State | green | “distinguished burks by placing tibbs' reversal in evidentiary weight category; appellate reversals where the evidence is technically sufficient but its weight so tenuous or insubstantial that a new trial is ordered” | 5 |
| 4 | Tibbs v. State | green | “having to review appellate reversals based on evidentiary shortcomings to determine whether they were based on sufficiency or on weight” | 5 |
| 5 | State v. Tibbs | green | “was based on the weight, rather than the legal sufficiency, of the evidence.” | 5 |
| 6 | Clewis v. State | green | “general grant of appellate jurisdiction includes the power to review questions of law and fact” | 5 |
| 7 | Green v. State | green | “though the verdict should not be lightly annulled it is our duty to set it aside and order another trial when the evidence viewed in its strongest light from the standpoint of the state, fails to make guilt reasonably certain.” | 5 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.