State v. Eagle’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2018
22 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 Holland v. United States · Sandstrom v. Montana · State v. Lamm · State v. Romero · 28 Utah 2d 144 - State v. Close
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In regard to the propriety of the so-called “reasonable alternative hypothesis” jury instruction, any controversy over its use constitutes nothing more than a tempest in a teapot. The prosecution’s burden of proof in any criminal case, whether the evidence be direct or circumstantial, or a combination of both, is that of beyond a reasonable doubt. The use of the reasonable alternative hypothesis instruction is merely one way of expressing that necessary burden of proof and there is no apparent reason to mandate that one, and only one, particular instruction be used by trial judges in conveying to the jury the meaning of that elusive phrase, “proof beyond a reasonable doubt.” [Footnote omitted; emphasis added.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burton · State v. Gerber“It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution in which an actor's criminal responsibility arises from his own conduct ... that prior to the commission of the offense, the actor voluntarily terminated his effort to promote or facilitate its commission and either: (1) gave timely warning to the proper law enforcement authorities ...; or (2) wholly deprives his prior efforts of effectiveness in the commission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roth“To warrant you in convicting the defendant, the evidence must to your minds exclude every reasonable hypothesis other than that of the guilt of the defendant. That is to say, if after an entire consideration and comparison of all the testimony in the case you can reasonably explain the facts given in evidence on any reasonable ground other than the guilt of the defendant, you should acquit him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burton
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.