State v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Here, the jury in fact failed to find Defendant guilty of felony murder or second degree murder and their accompanying conspiracy counts. To find that Defendant’s acts in connection with the more attenuated armed robbery resulted in the victim’s death is not consistent with the jury’s failure to find him guilty of the death directly. The jury’s failure to convict Defendant of a crime that would have found him responsible for the death argues against the district court’s action and brings into clear relief the constitutional underpinnings of Apprendi.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. McDonald