Ewing v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Wle must determine whether any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. When considering a claim of the sufficiency of the evidence, we review that evidence with the assumption that the evidence of the prevailing party is true, disregard the evidence favoring the unsuceessful party, and give the prevailing party the benefit of every favorable inference that we may reasonably draw from the evidence. We will not reweigh the evidence nor will we re-examine the credibility of the witnesses.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Counts v. State · Garner v. State

2. “[128] We will not find reversible error in a trial court's instructions to the jury unless the instructions do not correctly state the law, or the instructions, taken as a whole, do not sufficiently cover the issues presented at trial. A trial court has wide latitude, within those parameters, to choose jury instructions tailored to the facts and legal theories of the case.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kiyon L. Brown · Kyle Joseph Anderson v. The State of Wyoming

3. “those facts, combined with [the defendant's] statement that he was going to shoot the officers, allowed for the reasonable inference ... that the rifle was 'drawn'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Derek Earl Hill v. State · Birch v. State