52 Cited authorities

  1. Jackson v. Virginia

    443 U.S. 307 (1979)   Cited 77,383 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"
  2. Brecht v. Abrahamson

    507 U.S. 619 (1993)   Cited 11,757 times   30 Legal Analyses
    Holding that when a court has "never squarely addressed the issue, and ha at most assumed" something in a prior decision, it is "free to address the issue on the merits"
  3. Puckett v. United States

    556 U.S. 129 (2009)   Cited 4,487 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that to be "clear or obvious" an error cannot be "subject to reasonable dispute"
  4. Neder v. United States

    527 U.S. 1 (1999)   Cited 4,920 times   31 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the failure to submit an uncontested element of an offense to a jury may be harmless
  5. Chapman v. California

    386 U.S. 18 (1967)   Cited 23,424 times   28 Legal Analyses
    Holding that error is harmless only if "harmless beyond a reasonable doubt"
  6. Arizona v. Fulminante

    499 U.S. 279 (1991)   Cited 5,271 times   20 Legal Analyses
    Holding that involuntary confessions are subject to harmless-error review
  7. U.S. v. Gonzalez-Lopez

    548 U.S. 140 (2006)   Cited 2,086 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice does not require showing prejudice
  8. In re Winship

    397 U.S. 358 (1970)   Cited 11,616 times   24 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the government must prove every element of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt
  9. Sullivan v. Louisiana

    508 U.S. 275 (1993)   Cited 3,274 times   14 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a constitutionally deficient reasonable doubt instruction constitutes structural error as the deprivation of the right to trial by jury has "necessarily unquantifiable and indeterminate" consequences and "unquestionably qualifies as ‘structural error’ "
  10. Victor v. Nebraska

    511 U.S. 1 (1994)   Cited 1,743 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "the Constitution does not require that any particular form of words be used in advising the jury of the government's burden of proof," so long as the instructions taken as a whole correctly convey the concept of "reasonable doubt"