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Wright v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
3
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2019

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions

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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 Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · North Carolina v. Pearce · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““When a defendant raises an alibi defense, he is entitled to jury instructions that specify that the Government must bear the burden of persuasion on this element of the offense as well. See United States v. Marcus, 166 F.2d 497, 503-04 (3d Cir. 1948). The jury must be informed that, once a defendant has offered proof that he was not present at the time and place that the crime was committed, then the Government must convince the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant’s alibi is not true [United States v. Booz, 451 F. 2d 719, 723 (3d Cir. 1971), cert. denied, 414 U. S. 820 , 94 S. Ct. 45 , 38 L.Ed.2d 52 (1973)], and that the defendant was in fact present at the scene when the crime was committed. If such specific instructions are not given when a defendant offers alibi evidence at trial, there is a likelihood that the jury will become confused about the burden of persuasion. . . .” (Emphasis added.) See also Fay v. United States, 22 F.2d 740 (9th Cir. 1927); United States v. Burse, 531 F.2d 1151 (2d Cir. 1976); United States v. Megna, 450 F.2d 511 (5th Cir. 1971); Stump v. Bennett, supra; United States v. Alston, 551 F.2d 315 (D.C.Cir. 1976). 5”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “The federal courts have been sensitive of the rationale for requiring an instruction on alibi. The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects an accused against conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every fact necessary to constitute the crime charged. Since alibi is generally held not to be an affirmative defense, an alibi instruction removes the possibility that the jury will place the burden of proof upon the defendant with respect to the alibi.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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