Guevara v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Jjurors are not generally equipped to determine whether a particular theory of conviction submitted to them is contrary to law-whether, for example, the action in question is protected by the Constitution, is time barred, or fails to come within the statutory definition of the crime. When, therefore, jurors have been left the option of relying upon a legally inadequate theory, there is no reason to think that their own intelligence and expertise will save them from that error.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Robinson v. State · Green v. State

2. “[e]ach party to an offense may be charged with commission of the offense.”

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

3. “she had loaned her.25-caliber gun to her friend Tina [Timmerman].”

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