192 Md. App. 45 - Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In an action tried before a jury, it is the jury’s task, not the court’s, to measure the weight of evidence and to judge the credibility of witnesses. In performing this role, the jury has the power to decide which testimony to accept and which to reject. In this regard, it may believe part of a particular witness’s testimony, but disbelieve other parts of that witness’s testimony. Moreover, it is the exclusive function of the jury to draw reasonable inferences from proven facts.” Smith v. State, 176 Md.App. 64, 69 , 932 A.2d 773 (2007) (citation omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 195 Md. App. 695 - Moore v. State

2. “The standard of review for the sufficiency of evidence is well settled. We must determine “whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.” Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319 , 99 S.Ct. 2781 , 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979) (emphasis in original); see Rivers v. State, 393 Md. 569, 580, 903 A.2d 908 (2006); Moye v. State, 369 Md. 2, 12 , 796 A.2d 821 (2002).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 195 Md. App. 695 - Moore v. State

3. “free to discount or disregard totally [a defendant's] account of the incident”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 235 Md. App. 299 - Lindsey v. State