Patten v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 2006
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · State v. Merrill · State v. Loebach · State v. Ani · State v. DeBaere
Most-quoted passages
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“must take the view of the evidence most favorable to the state and must assume that the jury believed the state’s witnesses and disbelieved any contradictory evidence. If the jury, giving due regard to the presumption of innocence and to the state’s burden of proving the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, could reasonably have found the defendant guilty, that verdict will not be reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bingham
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