State v. Jojola’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. “THE COURT: I just need to report there is a juror, and I believe she is the foreperson, I’m not sure, but a juror whom I believe to be the foreperson came to my office and she was complaining that one juror had committed perjury that she was the juror that had had a disagreement with that police officer about some ticket and that this juror— [PROS. 1]: What police officer about a ticket? THE COURT: That she doesn’t believe the expert and that she is not going to change her mind and that they could be there for two months and she was not going to change her mind. She reported that to me and I told her, well, just report — you know, just report that you are hung and I told her I’ll take it from there. So I guess— [PROS 2]: Which juror approached you, Judge? THE COURT: I believe she’s— [DEFENSE]: I guess it wouldn’t matter if we know, does it? THE COURT: I think for the record we need to know. I think she is the foreperson, Rochelle Smith or I think she is Rochelle Smith, yeah. She is sitting right here. THE COURT: What she said was kind of in relation to what the last — what the note said so it’s a continuation of that and I’m trying to summarize what she told me. But I told her to continue and do whatever she had to do and just report — just report to me and I could handle it from there. [PROS. 2]: Is she going to send a note out? THE COURT: She said, well, I’ll just indicate to you that we’re hung. THE COURT: What I’m going to do— what I propose to do is I will ask my usual q”

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

2. “The standard of review for sufficiency of evidence claims requires us to view all of the evidence in the light most favorable to support the jury's verdict, and to determine whether any rational jury could find all elements of the crime based on the facts presented at trial.”

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