Robey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2015
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 Davis v. State · Farley v. State · 179 Ind. App. 342 - Simmons 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.
“—You should keep an open mind. You should not form or express any conclusion or judgment about the outcome of [the] case'until I submit the case to you for your deliberations. App. at 260. —You are to consider all of these instruction[s] as a whole. Id. at 263. —The filing of a charge or the Defendant’s arrest is not to be considered by you as any evidence of guilt. Id. at 266. —Under the law of this State, a person charged with a crime is presumed to be innocent. To overcome the presumption of innocence, the State must prove the Defendant guilty of each element of the crime charged, beyond a reasonable doubt. Id. at 267. —The Defendant is not required to present any evidence to prove his innocence or to prove or explain anything. Id. —The burden is upon the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Defendant is guilty of the crime or crimes charged. Id. at 268. —A reasonable doubt is a fair, actual and logical doubt based upon reason and common sense. Id. —Reasonable doubt exists when you are not firmly convinced of the Defendant’s guilt, after you have weighed and considered all the evidence. Id. —If you find there is a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of the crime(s), you must give the Defendant the benefit of that doubt and find the Defendant not guilty of the crime under consideration. Id.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“The law presumes the defendant to be innocent of the crime charged, and this presumption continues in his favor throughout the trial of this cause. It is your duty, if it can be reasonably and conscientiously done to reconcile the evidence upon the theory that the defendant is innocent, and you cannot find the defendant guilty of the crime charged in the information unless the evidence satisfies you beyond a reasonable doubt of his guilt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n instruction of this character which advises the jury that the presumption of innocence prevails until the close of the trial, and that it is the duty of the jury to reconcile the evidence upon the theory of the defendant’s innocence if they could do so, must be given if requested.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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