State v. Wynn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “[W]e review the record, marshaling all evidence favorable to [the] trial court’s findings. If evidence is in conflict, or credibility is at issue, we accept any interpretation of the evidence that supports the trial court’s findings, provided that such a view of the evidence is not inherently improbable. We determine whether the evidence supports any conceivable set of rational deductions and inferences that logically leads to the finding in question. We must be satisfied that the evidence was sufficient to establish the facts essential to conviction with the level of certainty required by the applicable burden of proof. To support a conviction under a beyond a reasonable doubt standard, the evidence and inferences drawn from that evidence must be sufficiently compelling so that a hypothetical reasonable factfinder could have reached a subjective state of near certitude of the guilt of the accused.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Garcia · State v. Silva

2. “that the inference of intent was sufficiently compelling to establish intent to harm beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Garvin