State v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. White (1999), James David Carter v. Ricky Bell, Warden Paul Summers, Attorney General (2000)
1 federal appellate · 64 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Gregg v. Georgia · Pointer v. Texas
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reasonable doubt is not a mere possible doubt because everything relating to human affairs is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is an honest doubt engendered after an investigation of all of the evidence and an inability after such investigation to let the mind rest easily as to the moral certainty of guilt. And this certainty is required as to every essential element of the crime charged or included in this indictment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sawyer · R.D.S. v. State“Reasonable doubt is that doubt engendered by an investigation of all the proof in the case and an inability, after such investigation, to let the mind rest easily as to the certainty of guilt Reasonable doubt does not mean a doubt that may arise from possibility, or an imaginary or captious doubt. Absolute certainty of guilt is not demanded by the law to convict of any criminal charge, but moral certainty is required, and this moral certainty is required as to every proposition of proof requisite to constitute the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Kiser · Wilcoxson 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.