Pickens v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 21 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity or absence of mistake - or - accident.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State · SHAW v. STATE

2. “Counsel stated on the record he preferred the jury not be provided with the transcription, but agreed to handle any incorrect statements during cross-examination. After the State had passed out transcriptions to the jurors and had begun to play the tape, defense counsel objected on the grounds that the statement contained evidence of other crimes. The trial court collected the transcriptions from the jurors, called the court in recess, and then allowed defense counsel to go through the transcription in its entirety and recommend what portions should be redacted. Thereafter, the redacted tape was played for the jury, and the jury followed along with the redacted transcription.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 373 F. App'x 847 - Pickens v. Workman

3. “"We have consistently rejected the claim that instructing the jury they `may consider' mitigating evidence creates a doubt as to the jury's constitutional duty to consider such evidence and recently reaffirmed those holdings in Welch v. State, 2000 OK CR 8, ¶ 49 , 2 P.3d 356, 374 , cert. denied, 531 U.S. 1056 , 121 S.Ct. 665 , 148 L.Ed.2d 567 (2000)."”

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