Benjamin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We have previously observed ... that in all cases, civil or criminal, turning upon the state of an individual's mind, direct evidence may be rare; usually the trier of facts is required to draw inferences of the state of mind at issue from surrounding acts, utterances, writings, or other indicia.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lance David Bean v. State

2. “A trial court is given wide latitude in instructing the jury and, as long as the instructions correctly state the law and the instructions in their entirety sufficiently cover{[ ] the relevant issue, reversible error will not be found.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. John Henry Knospler, Jr. v. State

3. “We keep in mind, as we evaluate this claim, that we 'accept as true the State's evidence and all reasonable inferences which can be drawn from it. We do not consider conflicting evidence presented by the defendant.'”

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