State v. Begin’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2022
18 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · United States v. Hasting · Taylor v. Illinois · State v. True · United States v. Yefsky
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pursuant to [section 101(1) ], the State must disprove beyond a reasonable doubt any statutory defense “in issue as a result of evidence admitted at the trial which is sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt on the issue.” A defense is in issue within the meaning of section 101 if the evidence is “sufficient to make the existence of all the facts constituting the defense a reasonable hypothesis for the factfinder to entertain.” State v. Glidden, 487 A.2d 642, 644 (Me.1985). Either the State or the defense may introduce the evidence that generates the State’s obligation. Id,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Corbin · State v. Michaud“2. The State is not required to negate any facts expressly designated as a "defense,” or any exception, exclusion, or authorization which is set out in the statute defining the crime, either: B. By proof at trial, unless the existence of the defense, exception, exclusion or authorization is in issue as a result of evidence admitted at the trial which is sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt on the issue, in which case the State must disprove its existence beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Corbin · State v. Berube
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.