State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 54 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““On defendant’s appeal from criminal conviction based on jury verdict challenging sufficiency of evidence to sustain the verdict we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the State and accept as established all reasonable inferences tending to support action of the jury. It is necessary to consider only the supporting evidence whether contradicted or not. * * * [citing authorities].””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Smith

2. “[The] right of a defendant in a criminal case to attack the court’s instruction for the first time in a motion for a new trial is subject to two exceptions. A party may expressly waive the right, (citing authorities) or if the instruction was correct as given but not as explicit as a party may have desired he must request an additional instruction before the jury is charged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Veverka