State v. Taylor.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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.

1. “once instructional error is demonstrated, we will vacate, without regard to whether timely objection was made, if there is a reasonable possibility that the error contributed to the defendant's conviction , i.e. , that the erroneous jury instruction was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Kauhane · State v. Abella

2. “In the case of defenses which are not affirmative, the defendant need only raise a reasonable doubt as to the defendant's guilt. The other side of the coin is that the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt facts negativing the defense. The prosecution in fact does this when the jury believes its case and disbelieves the defense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Kauhane

3. “initial burden on the defendant to come forward with some credible evidence of facts constituting the defense, unless, of course, those facts are supplied by the prosecution's witnesses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Kauhane