Randolph v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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

1. “First. The defendant must be put upon trial before a court of competent jurisdiction. Second. The information or indictment against the defendant must be sufficient to sustain a conviction. Third. The jury must have been impaneled and sworn to try the case. Fourth, After having been so impaneled and sworn to try the case the jury must have been unnecessarily discharged. Fifth. That such discharge of the jury must have been without the consent of the defendant. When those things all occur, then the discharge of a jury operates as an acquittal of the defendant.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. BAIRD v. STATE · BAIRD v. STATE

2. “but constitutional). ¶5 In the last week of April, 2015, the Legislature passed H.B. 1574, amending the mandatory life without parole sentence for some defendants like Appellant, convicted of trafficking after former conviction of two (2) or more non-trafficking 1 drug felonies, to”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. WITHEROW v. STATE · WITHEROW v. STATE

3. “The Oklahoma Constitution, Article II, seetion 17, establishes the right to preliminary examination in felony prosecutions. "Quite simply, a preliminary examination is not a trial." [State v.] Tinkler, [ 1991 OK CR 73 ]¶ 10, 815 P.2d [190,] at 192. The seope of the right to confrontation of accusers at preliminary examination, like the seope of a preliminary examination itself, is subject to reasonable legislation. LaFortune, ¶ 10, 972 P.2d at 871 (noting that 1994 legislative amendments to Title 22 substantially limited seope and purpose of preliminary examination). The Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion by Justice Marshall, long ago acknowledged the important distinction between the two proceedings in a case from Oklahoma, Barber v. Page, 390 U.S. 719 , 88 S.Ct. 1318 , 20 L.Ed.2d 255 (1968): "The right to confrontation is basically a trial right. It includes both the opportunity to cross-examine and the occasion for the jury to weigh the demeanor of the witness. A preliminary hearing is ordinarily a much less searching exploration into the merits of a case than a trial, simply because its function is the more limited one of determining whether probable cause exists to hold the accused for trial." Barber [v. Page], 390 U.S. [719,] at 725, 88 S.Ct. [1318,] at 1322 (emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Office of the State Chief Medical Examiner ex rel. Pruitt v. Reeves