State v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “courts should carefully structure jury views, instructing jurors definitively and in advance that they should not talk to one another or engage in independent exploration of the view.”

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

2. “trial court has discretion in exercising its inherent power to allow or deny a request for a jury view”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Matthew Ziniti v. New England Central Railroad, Inc.