State v. McGhee’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]pparently, [the jury] determined that the firearm-looking weapon used by [the defendant] to commit the offense was not actually a firearm, a finding well within the scope of the parties' arguments about the disputed weapon.”

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

2. “but no matter what it was, he was certainly using it in a way to threaten to make it look like a real firearm.”

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

3. “it is simply an object used or threatened to be used in a way likely to produce death or great bodily harm.”

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