State v. Hammonds’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably State v. Rogers (1986), State v. Williams (1983)
71 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 State v. Beal · State v. Hammonds · State v. Davenport · State v. . Davenport · State v. Bright
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A reasonable doubt is not a vain, imaginary or fanciful doubt but is a sane, rational doubt. It means that the jury must be satisfied of the defendant’s guilt to a moral certainty of the truth of the charge. “If after considering, comparing and weighing all of the evidence the minds of the jurors are left in such condition that they cannot say that they have an abiding faith to a moral certainty in the defendant’s guilt, then they have a reasonable doubt; otherwise not.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Greene · State v. Williams“It is very generally held in an indictment consisting of several counts that each count should be complete in itself, and that in order to this some name should be given the defendant. If it is the wrong name, or defectively stated, the question should ordinarily be raised by plea in abatement or motion to quash, but where no name at all appears in the bill or in the only count on which a conviction is had, it is held in this jurisdiction that such a charge is fatally defective, and the judgment must be arrested. And this course should be taken though the question is presented for the first time in the Supreme Court on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simpson“A reasonable doubt... is an honest, substantial misgiving, generated by the insufficiency of the proof. ... It is not a doubt suggested by the ingenuity of counsel, or by your own ingenuity not legitimately warranted by the testimony, or one bom of merciful inclination or disposition to permit the defendant to escape the penalty of the law, or one prompted by sympathy for him or those connected with him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ward
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.