Bateman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “, but from a review of the record it is clear that the court was simply attempting to identify her for purposes of questioning the jury panel as to whether or not they were acquainted with her. Certainly, the court could have referred to her as the alleged victim and that would not have been error. Under all the circumstances, we do not view that comment by the trial court as prejudicial even though the term should not have been used. 2 Ark. App. at 340 , 621 S.W.2d at 233 -34 . Here, the only instance in which appellant identifies the trial court's use of the term”

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

2. “word victim in the connection in which it appears, is an unguarded expression, calculated, though doubtless unintentionally, to create prejudice against the accused. It seems to assume that the deceased was wrongfully killed, when the very issue was as to the character of the killing.... And it was nearly equivalent, in effect, to an expression characterizing the defendant as a criminal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Friday v. State