Smith v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Holland v. United States · Cupp v. Naughten · Henderson v. Kibbe
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The truth is that no one has yet invented or discovered a mode of measurement for the intensity of human belief. Hence there can be yet no successful method of communicating intelligibly to a jury a sound method of self-analysis for one's belief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a basic philosophical precept that the concept of reasonable doubt has an a priori existence in the minds of all jurors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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