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75 F.3d 10 · 1996

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
April 2002
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Teague v. Lane · Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Sanders v. United States

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[ Sandstrom ] simply held that an instruction which creates a presumption of fact violates due process if [that presumption] relieves the State of its burden of proving all of the elements of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[ Sandstrom ] does not constitute a `new rule'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.