Rucker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Where it appears that it is equally probable that death resulted from one cause as from another, and the defendant is not responsible for one of the causes, then any determination of the cause of death cannot be speculative and conjectural, and the evidence will be held insufficient to support a verdict of guilty.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 45 Ala. App. 657 - Welch v. State · 338 Pa. Super. 20 - Commonwealth v. Cotton

2. ““It is true, as held in Odeneal v. State, 128 Tenn. 60, 62 , 157 S.W. 419 , a case relied on by the State, that one who inflicts a dangerous wound upon another is held for the consequences flowing from such injury, whether the sequence be direct or through the operation of intermediate agencies dependent upon and arising out of the original cause. This rule can find no application in the instant case for the reason that the evidence fails to show that the death of deceased was a consequence, direct or through the operation of intermediate agencies, of the injuries received by deceased at the hands of defendant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 45 Ala. App. 657 - Welch v. State