State v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

43 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The instruction as a whole emphasizes with great clarity that the State bears the burden of proving the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and that a defendant is presumed innocent until that burden is met. In the context of the entire instruction, we conclude that [ WIS JI-CRIMINAL 140] ... which was read to the jury, did not dilute the State's burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 386 Wis. 2d 629 - State v. Fennell

2. “1 most errors, including constitutional ones, are reviewed for harmlessness. Neder, 527 U.S. at 8 . Most jury instruction errors are”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 382 Wis. 2d 414 - State v. Joseph T. Langlois

3. “that counsel's errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable.”

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