13 Kan. App. 2d 609 - State v. DeVries’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘It is for you to determine the weight and credit to be given the testimony of each witness. You have a right to use common knowledge and experience in regard to the matter about which a witness has testified. You may take into account the ability and opportunity of the witness to observe and know the things about which that witness has testified; i.e., memory, manner and conduct while testifying; any interest the witness may have in the outcome of this trial, and the reasonableness of testimony considered in the light of all evidence in this case.’ ” 13 Kan. App. 2d at 617 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Davis · State v. Castoreno

2. ““The opportunity to mislead the jury or cause it to become unduly influenced by specific wording in an instruction which it has been told is ‘the law that applies to this case’ compels us to reach the conclusion that using the additional language objected to by DeVries, was erroneous and requires reversal. ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Cheun-Phon Ji · State v. Castoreno

3. “`If jury instructions properly and fairly state the law as applied to the facts in the case when considered as a whole, and if the jury could not reasonably be misled by them, the instructions should be approved on appeal.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Butler · State v. Borman