Hoffa v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the case at bar, the jury were plainly told in other instructions of their right to determine the law, and, that although the court's instructions and decisions of the higher courts were entitled to great respect, they were not binding on the jury, if they determined the law otherwise. The instruction under consideration was intended only to advise them how to determine the law, and they were informed in other instructions that this and other instructions were only advisory.”

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

2. “"You are the exclusive and sole judges of what facts have been proven and you may also determine the law for yourselves. That statement does not mean that you have the right to set aside the law and make your own law. You determine the law as it is enacted by the legislature of this state and considered and interpreted by the higher courts of record, and in that way you have the right to determine the law for yourselves, but not to make your own laws."”

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