State v. Boyken’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2014
16 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 41 Ill. 2d 528 - The People v. Cagle · Maisel v. People · State v. Sorrell · The People v. Johnson · State v. Hardesty
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A “reasonable doubt” is such a doubt as fairly and naturally arises in your mind and by reason of which you cannot say that you have a full and abiding conviction of the guilt of the Defendant; and if, after considering all of the circumstances as disclosed by the evidence, you find your mind wavering or vacillating, then you have a reasonable doubt, and the Defendant is entitled to the benefit of such doubt and you must acquit him. A reasonable doubt may arise from the evidence in the case or it may arise from a lack or failure of evidence, and it must be such a doubt as would cause a reasonable, prudent and considerate man to pause and hesitate before acting in the graver and more important affairs of life. But you should not ignore credible evidence to hunt for doubt, and you should not entertain such doubt as is purely imaginary or fanciful or based on groundless conjecture. If, after a careful and impartial consideration of all of the evidence in the case, you have a full and abiding conviction of the guilt of the Defendant, then you are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt; otherwise you are not satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gering v. State“lack of knowledge of the market value of such records between individuals on the street . . would not render him incompetent to testify to the market value of these new records on the shelves from which they were stolen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Savage“from a lack or failure of evidence produced by the State. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Savage
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.