Tucker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 9 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"A large portion of the damaging evidence adduced on cross-examination related to the character of the defendants since the homicide. To charge the jury generally under the facts of this particular case, and in view of the court's erroneous rulings already mentioned, that `you should consider all the evidence both for and against their general reputation,' etc., was to leave an erroneous impression on the minds of the jury." (Italics ours.)”

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

2. “There is, then, a sharp distinction between evidence of the general reputation of a defendant, and evidence of specific acts and conduct which may be developed on cross-examination. The one class of evidence may shed light on the guilt or innocence, the credibility or lack of credibility, of the accused. The other class of evidence must be limited to testing the value of the opinion of the character witness.”

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

3. “"While, as is pointed out by the state, no request was made in this behalf, we think that it was incumbent on the court under the facts of this case to clear up the confusion which must have existed in the minds of the jury by a concise statement of the applicable rule."”

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