State v. Leach’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[D]eclarations by the defendant of an intent to kill, evidence of procurement of a weapon, the use of a deadly weapon upon an unarmed victim, the particular cruelty of the killing, infliction of multiple wounds, preparation before the killing for concealment of the crime, destruction or secretion of evidence of the murder, and calmness immediately after the killing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Jackson

2. “may be established by any evidence from which a rational trier of fact may infer that the killing was done 'after the exercise of reflection and judgment,'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State of Tennessee v. Henry Lee Jones

3. “Robbery is the intentional or knowing theft of property from the person of another by violence or putting the person in fear.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State of Tennessee v. Henry Lee Jones