State v. DeWitt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

41 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We review a district court's denial of a motion for a directed verdict to determine whether the court abused its discretion. In doing so, we determine whether, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the elements of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt. Abuse of discretion occurs only when the district court acted arbitrarily without the employment of conscientious judgment or exceeded the bounds of reason resulting in substantial injustice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. English

2. “to determine whether the court's findings of fact are clearly erroneous and whether its interpretation and application of the law are correct.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Anyan