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5 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 26 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 State v. Whalen.

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1 State v. Whalen Anchor
mo · 2001
green “may not supply missing evidence, or give the state the benefit of unreasonable, speculative or forced inferences.” 9
2 State v. Grim
mo · 1993
green “unless they are such a natural and logical extension of the evidence that a reasonable juror would be unable to disregard them.” 7
3 State of Missouri v. Thomas A. Ess
mo · 2015
green “to determine whether the evidence presented was sufficient to support a conviction and to withstand a motion for judgment of acquittal, this court does not weigh the evidence but rather accepts as true all evidence tending to prove guilt together with all reasonable inferences t…” 4
4 State v. Whalen
mo · 2001
green “supply missing evidence, or give the state the benefit of unreasonable, speculative or forced inferences.” 3
5 State of Missouri v. Gary Leland Coleman
mo · 2015
green “there is sufficient evidence from which a reasonable fact-finder might have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” 3

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