Anderson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Under the law the defendant is a competent witness in his own behalf. He has given his testimony, and you are the judges of the weight which ought to be attached to it. He is directly interested in the result of the trial. In determining the weight to be given to his testimony it is proper for you to take such interest into consideration. You are to give his testimony such weight as, under all the circumstances, you think it is entitled to. You have the right to consider his situation, his interest in the result of the trial, the temptation that exists under the circumstances to testify falsely, and everything appearing in the case bearing upon his credibility, and to give to his testimony just such weight as you think it entitled to — no more, no less. His testimony is to be considered with all the other evidence in the case.””

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

2. ““The jury were entitled to consider the fact that he had a far greater interest in the result of the trial than any other witness, and this, we think, is the utmost effect which the instruction complained of in the connection it was given could have had upon their minds.””

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

3. ““If there was a design to effect death on the part of the defendant, the case does not fall within this or any degree of manslaughter.””

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