State v. . Knox’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1983
7 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whatever be the charge, the law requires that the evidence shall produce that result which very commonly is described as involving an absence of `reasonable doubt,' but which may be denoted as well by other language; as, for instance, upon the whole, by that which here has been employed by the court below. We have taken occasion recently to say that there is no formula in the phrase `reasonable doubt.' S. v. Sears, ante , 146. What is demanded is that the jury shall be fully satisfied of the truth of the charge, due regard being had to the presumption of innocence ( a presumption for all grades of offenses) , and to the consequent rule as to the burden of proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Charles
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.