Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 34 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"... that defendant `had been drinking' or was to some degree under the influence is not proof of culpable negligence. Such evidence is admissible only upon the theory that persons under the influence of alcohol to any considerable degree, though not actually intoxicated, are more apt to be heedless, reckless and daring than when free from such influence; and, when standing alone, cannot make an act wanton and reckless that would not otherwise be so."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 So. 2d 226 - Peel v. State · 688 So. 2d 338 - Davison v. State

2. “... it does not follow, however, that every fatality, regrettable as it may be, is accompanied by and results from conduct warranting a criminal conviction... . Before one can be so condemned it must be established beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt that the defendant has been guilty of negligence of the character heretofore defined.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 553 So. 2d 323 - In the Interest of W.E.B. v. State · 553 So. 2d 323 - Web v. State

3. “that criminal liability does not attach when the accused is by circumstances and conditions beyond his control and against his will, placed in the position and subjected to the conditions which resulted in the death with which he is charged.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 553 So. 2d 323 - Web v. State · 688 So. 2d 338 - Davison v. State