People v. Conley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Courts of last resort will interfere by granting a new trial only in a case where the prosecuting attorney has so clearly departed from the evidence and the line of legitimate argument that any reasonable person will conclude that the jury were prejudiced by it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Fenner