People v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But it does not necessarily follow that appellant’s account of the killing, though uncontradieted by direct evidence, should control the jury. If there be any well-established circumstance in the case which may reasonably be regarded as incompatible with the theory of the defense that the killing was justifiable, then the jury, from a consideration of all the evidence, was warranted in finding that the act amounted to an unlawful homicide.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 121 Cal. App. 2d 564 - People v. Freudenberg

2. ““Under the foregoing rule the question presented is: Does the record furnish evidence of any circumstances which cannot reasonably be reconciled with the theory that defendant did not intend to stab her husband? It certainly does.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 121 Cal. App. 2d 564 - People v. Freudenberg