State v. Derouchie’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Jenks (1991), 146 Ill. 2d 363 - People v. Campbell (1992)
102 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Holland v. United States · Sandstrom v. Montana · United States v. Becker
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As we said in Derouchie and reaffirm here, “ [t] here is only one standard of proof for criminal convictions, whether the evidence is direct, circumstantial, or a combination of both. The prosecution has the burden of proving each element of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re Russo · State v. Taylor“exclusion of every reasonable hypothesis of innocence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cherry · In Re Russo“first, as a device for judicial evaluation of the sufficiency of the evidence, the `exclusion of every reasonable hypothesis of innocence' test is premised upon a now suspect distrust of circumstantial evidence.... Second, ... [r]ather than assisting jurors in applying the reasonable doubt standard, the traditional circumstantial evidence charge has been condemned for having the opposite effect. By directing juror's attention to an additional, yet unnecessary, level of analysis, the circumstantial evidence charge serves only to confuse the real issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Cherry
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.