State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A]s I told you when we started this trial, it’s very important for you to deliberate on and consider each of these charges separately. You must not permit yourselves individually or as a group to assume or to infer that the defendant is guilty of one or more of these charges because you believe he is guilty of one other or some other of them. Moreover, you must not infer guilt because of the number of charges. The defendant is entitled to the presumption of innocence on each of these charges and may not be convicted on any one of them unless you are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that the State has proven that particular charge. Accordingly, you may find the defendant guilty of all the charges, of some of them, or of none of them.”

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

2. “(a) Joinder of Offenses. Two or more offenses should be charged in the same indictment ... in a separate count for each offense if the offenses charged, whether of the same class or different classes, are of the same or similar character or are based on the same act or transaction or on two or more acts or transactions which are connected or which constitute parts of a common scheme or plan.”

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