McCullough v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Petrocelli v. State (1985), Koerner v. Grigas (2003)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 85 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 · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Holland v. United States · Richard Dunn v. Everett I. Perrin, Jr., Laurence Black v. Edward Cox · State v. Aubert
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“175.211 Reasonable doubt defined; no other definition to be given to juries. 1. A reasonable doubt is one based on reason. It is not mere possible doubt, but is such a doubt as would govern or control a person in the more weighty affairs of life. If the minds of the jurors, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, are in such a condition that they can say they feel an abiding conviction of the truth of the charge, there is not a reasonable doubt. Doubt to be reasonable must be actual and substantial, not mere possibility or speculation. 2. No other definition of reasonable doubt shall be given by the court to juries in criminal actions in this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petrocelli v. State“It is not necessary that the defendant’s guilt should be established beyond a reasonable doubt or to an absolute certainty, but instead thereof that the defendant’s guilt must be established beyond a reasonable doubt as hereinafter defined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Milligan v. State“the reasonable doubt instruction should impress on the jury the need to reach a `subjective state of near certitude' on the facts in issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Randolph 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.