Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 2017
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Benham · Commonwealth v. English · Sanders v. Commonwealth · Caudill v. Commonwealth · Marsch v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“in the very case that announced the prohibition against defining reasonable doubt [ Callahan ], we held that the prosecutor's allegedly improper statement, which, at most, attempted to show what reasonable doubt was not, did not amount to a violation of the rule against defining `reasonable doubt.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[E]ven if one is convinced that the statement by the prosecutor in this case constituted error, that error was harmless. We have applied harmless error on this precise issue, even in capital murder cases, each time affirming a conviction and sentence of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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