Hutchins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Kindness is ordinarily a virtue. But this was neither the time nor the place for manifestations of kindness and good will by the prosecuting attorney or his deputy, to one of the jurors who were about to decide the fate of a man whom the state had been during all the trial trying to send to state’s prison. Kindness and sympathy for the juror and his absent family at that hour might well touch the heart of the juror with sentiments of gratitude towards the lawyer, who was also apparently an intimate friend, for the juror asked him to put up at his house for the night. Without intending any wrong, the mind of the juror might well be turned in the direction of his friend’s known wishes: and if his judgment should be poised between the guilt and innocence of the prisoner, might not his heart turn the scale? Granting that no wrong wasrintended by either prosecutor or juror, yet the offense committed by both against a fair and impartial trial of the man accused of crime was most reprehensible.””

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