Washington v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. Lacher · Commonwealth v. Hudson · Jimenez v. Commonwealth
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the Due Process Clause protects the accused against conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every fact necessary to constitute the crime with which he is charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Crawford v. Com. · Bishop v. Com.“[A]n essential of the due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment [is] that no person shall be made to suffer the onus of a criminal conviction except upon sufficient proof - defined as evidence necessary to convince a trier of fact beyond a reasonable doubt of the existence of every element of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hubbard v. Com.
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.