Miller v. Hudspeth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 117 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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Mr. McQueary (county attorney): At this time the State desires to have the defendant arraigned on the charges contained in the information. “The Court: Very well, you may stand. (Defendant stands before the court.) “The Court: You are George Miller? A. Yes sir. ' “The Court: And you are represented by LeRoy E. Harris? A. Yes sir. “The Court: Your attorney? A. Yes sir. “The Court: Have you had a chance to talk with your attorney? A.;-Yes sir, I have. “The Court: Did you talk to your attorney this morning? A. Yes, a little bit. “The Court: . An Information has been filed charging you with murder in the first degree and what we are doing now is to arraign you. That is, we are informing you of this charge. The charge will be read to you by the clerk and you will listen to the reading of this Information and aftey the Information has been read then you will be asked to plead, but before you plead the Court must further talk t6 you. You will now listen to the 'reading of the information. (The clerk here reads the Information.) “The Court: Defendant, George Miller, you will now be required to plead to the Information. You may stand mute and not answer anything, in which event the Court will order a trial to a jury, and you may enter a plea of Not Guilty or you may enter a plea of Guilty. “Now, a plea of guilty to an Information charging murder in the first degree means that you may be imprisoned for life or'that you may suffer the death penalty. Now, having been informed by the Cou”

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

2. ““The Court: Mr. Harris, although testimony was taken in this case, does the defendant have anything more to say to the Court by way of informing the Court? Any other voluntary statement to make at this time? “Mr. Harris: We have nothing further to present to the Court at this time, Your Honor. “The Court: You have had an opportunity this morning to confer with your client? “Mr. Harris: Yes, Your Honor.””

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

3. ““. . . it is the duty of a defendant’s counsel to determine what crime the facts, in his opinion, establish and to advise his client accordingly. That is one of the definite purposes of having counsel. A layman is not presumed to know the legal technicalities involved in a charge of murder or manslaughter in the various degrees. . . .” (pp. 705,706.)”

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