State v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably State v. Schiappa (1999), State v. Velasco (2000)
80 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 Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Alexander v. Louisiana · Bourjaily v. United States
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e consistently have held that the definition of reasonable doubt as a real doubt, an honest doubt, a doubt which has its foundation in the evidence or lack of evidence, as a doubt for which a valid reason can be assigned, and as a doubt in which the serious affairs which concern you in every day life you would pay heed and attention to does not dilute the state's burden of proof when such definitions are viewed in the context of an entire [jury] charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] reasonable doubt is a doubt for which a valid reason can be assigned”
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.