Huffman v. Ricketts’s Empirical Analysis
750 F.2d 798 · 1984
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
June 1996
most recently cited
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Lockett v. Ohio · Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“held that a presumption which relieves the state from its burden of proving every fact necessary to constitute the crime charged, or which shifts the burden of persuasion to the defendant, violates due process”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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