State v. DeVere’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1994
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Holt v. United States · Lawrence Metze v. New York · State v. Spreigl · Batsell v. United States · State v. Sauer
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Justice Mitchell’s statement in State v. Sauer, 38 Minn. 438, 439 , 38 N.W. 355, 356 (1888), still merits consideration by both court and counsel by attempting to explain the presumption of innocence: Where any explanation of what is meant by a reasonable doubt [or the presumption of innocence] is required, it is safer to adopt some definition which has already received the general approval of the authorities, especially those in our own state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bohlsen
How this case has been treated — in progress
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