State v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This court' twice recently decided that the appellate court will not set aside the refusal to grant a new trial unless clearly wrong, and that such motions generally are addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court. State v. Pastor, 111 La. 717 , 35 So. 839 ; State v. Jones, 112 La. 980 , 36 So. 825 . “With these decisions before us, the cause urged by defendant does not appeal to us as one in which we should grant relief. Trial and acquittal would become easy if a defendant were allowed to go on with his trial, examine his witnesses, declare to the court that he has no other witnesses, and thereafter produce the affidavit of one with whom he was prosecuted, with whom he was in jail, as ground for a new trial. The district judge doubtless had good reasons not to attach importance to the affidavit. We cannot say that he erred.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Barton

2. ““An accused cannot be permitted to remain supinely, indifferent about having counsel, take his chances of acquittal, and, after verdict, successfully urge that he was entitled to counsel.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. White