State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The defendant relies on the rule stated by this court many times that in order to sustain a conviction the circumstances must be so strong that they exclude every reasonable hypothesis except that of the guilt' of the defendant. “In State v. Sweizewski, 73 Kan. 733 , 85 Pac. 800 , we said: ‘The circumstances must be so-strong as not only to be consistent with the theory of the defendant’s guilt, but they must also exclude every reasonable hypothesis except that of the guilt of the defendant. The facts above relied upon do not exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of the defendant’s guilt, but do suggest that the defendant for numerous reasons may be entirely innocent.’ (p. 734.) see, also, State v. Brizendine, 114 Kan. 699 , 220 Pac. 174 ; State v. Hunter, 50 Kan. 302 , 32 Pac. 37 ; State v. Murphy, 145 Kan. 242 , 65 P. 2d 342 , and State v. Morton, 91 Kan. 908 , 139 Pac. 409 .” (p. 288.)”

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