State v. Cage’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Sullivan v. Louisiana (1993), 664 So. 2d 94 - State v. Johnson (1995)
50 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gideon v. Wainwright · Arizona v. Fulminante
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t must be such a doubt as would give rise to a grave uncertainty raised in your mind by the reason of the unsatisfactory character of the evidence, one that would make you feel that you had not embodied a conviction to a moral certainty of the defendant's guilt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“as they are commonly understood, suggest a higher degree of doubt than is required for acquittal under the reasonable doubt standard. When those statements are then considered with the reference to”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A trial error is harmless when a reviewing court is convinced that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Chapman [ v. California, 386 U.S. 18 , 87 S.Ct. 824 , 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967) ]. The State has the burden of demonstrating that the trial error did not contribute to defendant's conviction. If a reviewing court finds that the trial record establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the interests of justice have been satisfied and the judgment should be affirmed. Rose v. Clark, 478 U.S. 570 , 106 S.Ct. 3101 , 92 L.Ed.2d 460 (1986). Id., 583 So.2d at 1127-1128 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.