210 Cited authorities

  1. Apprendi v. New Jersey

    530 U.S. 466 (2000)   Cited 26,625 times   100 Legal Analyses
    Holding that “[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt”
  2. Blakely v. Washington

    542 U.S. 296 (2004)   Cited 16,609 times   17 Legal Analyses
    Holding that “[w]hen a judge inflicts punishment that the jury's verdict alone does not allow, the jury has not found all the facts ‘which the law makes essential to the punishment,’ and the judge exceeds his proper authority”
  3. Jackson v. Virginia

    443 U.S. 307 (1979)   Cited 77,568 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Holding that courts conducting review of the sufficiency of the evidence to support a criminal conviction should view the "evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution"
  4. Miranda v. Arizona

    384 U.S. 436 (1966)   Cited 60,240 times   64 Legal Analyses
    Holding that statements obtained by custodial interrogation of a criminal defendant without warning of constitutional rights are inadmissible under the Fifth Amendment
  5. Cunningham v. California

    549 U.S. 270 (2007)   Cited 4,291 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the "jury-trial guarantee proscribes a sentencing scheme that allows a judge to impose a sentence above the statutory maximum based on a fact, other than a prior conviction, not found by the jury or admitted by the defendant"
  6. Ring v. Arizona

    536 U.S. 584 (2002)   Cited 4,998 times   50 Legal Analyses
    Holding that “[i]f a State makes an increase in a defendant's authorized punishment contingent on the finding of a fact, that fact—no matter how the State labels it—must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt”
  7. Chapman v. California

    386 U.S. 18 (1967)   Cited 23,461 times   28 Legal Analyses
    Holding that error is harmless only if "harmless beyond a reasonable doubt"
  8. Faretta v. California

    422 U.S. 806 (1975)   Cited 12,534 times   23 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a defendant's right to self-representation was denied when he made his requests "weeks before trial" without any indication that the defendant was required to reassert his request during the trial
  9. Atkins v. Virginia

    536 U.S. 304 (2002)   Cited 3,121 times   54 Legal Analyses
    Holding that it violates the Eighth Amendment to execute intellectually disabled defendants
  10. United States v. Scheffer

    523 U.S. 303 (1998)   Cited 1,979 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the blanket exclusion of polygraph evidence didn't violate the right to present a defense, as the law was "a rational and proportional means of advancing the legitimate interest in barring unreliable evidence"