State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Holland v. United States · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants · 446 So. 2d 1207 - State v. Camp
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the] presumption that a defendant found in possession of property recently stolen in a burglary is presumed to have committed the burglary does 'not meet the beyond-a-reasonable doubt standard, and ... defendant consequently was adjudged guilty without requiring that the State .prove beyond a reasonable doubt every essential element of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Causey“The rule as to circumstantial evidence is: assuming every fact to be proved that the evidence tends to prove, in order to convict, it must exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Causey
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.