Zani v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
September 1998
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Kastigar v. United States · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · Crocker v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the issue of the existence of a defense is submitted to the jury, the court shall charge that a reasonable doubt on the issue requires that the defendant be acquitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Zani v. State
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.