In Re Doe

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that once a criminal defendant introduces evidence of self-defense the burden of persuasion is on the prosecution to negate that defense beyond a reasonable doubt
• once a defendant in a murder prosecution introduces some evidence of self-defense, the state bears the burden of persuasion to negate that defense beyond a reasonable doubt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Robalewski
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-07-28· cited 52×
• State v. McGehearty
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1978-12-05· cited 49×
• State v. Reis
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-06-03· cited 48×
• State v. Lynch
  Washington Supreme Court· 2013-09-19· cited 40×
• State v. Parkhurst
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1998-01-20· cited 35×
• State v. Arpin
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-02-07· cited 34×
• Holloway v. McElroy
  M.D. Georgia· 1979-08-22· cited 31×
• State v. Neary
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1979-12-24· cited 20×
• State v. Pule
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1982-12-21· cited 19×
• State v. DiPetrillo
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2007-05-17· cited 13×
• State v. Urena
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-06-16· cited 12×
• State v. Caron
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-12-15· cited 11×
• State v. Lakesha Garrett
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2014-05-30· cited 8×
• State v. Udin
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-08-01· cited 7×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• McKeiver v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-28· cited 1,332×
• Hankerson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 586×
• State v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-15· cited 210×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-25· cited 201×
• State v. Roberts
  Washington Supreme Court· 1977-02-24· cited 160×
• Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-07-15· cited 131×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-02· cited 106×
• State v. Millett
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1971-02-09· cited 73×
• State v. Columbus
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-09-16· cited 28×
• State v. Bolton
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1976-04-07· cited 24×
• In Re McCloud
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1972-07-26· cited 18×
• State v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1955-04-25· cited 14×
• State v. Barrett
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1970-06-02· cited 14×
• St. Pierre v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1976-09-30· cited 10×
• In Re Wilkinson
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1976-03-15· cited 5×