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← 135 SO3D 862 - Reith v. State

Reith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Morissette v. United States · Francis v. Franklin · Coffin v. United States · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “general instructions as to the State's burden and the defendant's presumption of innocence d[id] not dissipate the error in the challenged portion of the instructions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “allowed the jury to convict Reith based upon a presumption as opposed to evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “hopeless conflict with the overriding presumption of innocence with which the law endows the accused.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.