442 So. 2d 1058 - Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2019
14 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 Rutledge v. Florida · 421 So. 2d 510 - State v. Hicks · 374 So. 2d 944 - Holmes v. State · Baeumel v. State · 359 So. 2d 557 - Moody v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Simply because the exception is an affirmative defense, however, does not mean that the ultimate burden of proof of the exception shifts to the defendant. [f.o.] We think this exception should be treated like affirmative defenses such as insanity or entrapment. The defendant has the burden of going forward with evidence that the affirmative defense exists. Once the defendant has presented competent evidence of the existence of the defense, the burden of proof remains with the State, and the State must then prove the nonexistence of the defense beyond a reasonable doubt. In Holmes v. State, 374 So.2d 944 (Fla.1979), cert. denied, 446 U.S. 913 , 100 S.Ct. 1845 , 64 L.Ed.2d 267 (1980), the court stated that where the evidence presents a reasonable doubt of an accused's sanity in the minds of the jurors, the presumption of sanity vanishes and the sanity of the accused must be proved by the prosecution beyond a reasonable doubt like any other element of the offense."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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