People v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"notwithstanding the court's charge that all the counts referred to the [handgun], the jurors nonetheless asked for a 'read-back of [the detective's] testimony about his conversations with... [Ramsanany].' They followed shortly after that with a request to examine both pistols. And when the jurors requested a recharge on the submitted counts, the court denied the defense's request to charge the jury that the counts only referred to the [handgun]" ( id. ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Boyd

2. “[t]he [trial] court providently dismissed the air pistol charge so that the jury could not compromise by resorting to jury nullification and merely find defendant guilty of that less serious charge”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Boyd

3. “removed defendant's only defense from consideration, namely, that he only possessed the air pistol”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Boyd