2015 UT App 30 - State v. Black’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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “11 A court may reverse a jury verdict on a motion to arrest judgment only when "the evidence is sufficiently inconclusive or inherently improbable such that reasonable minds must have entertained a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime for which he or she was convicted.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Klenz · State v. Hand

2. “When the evidence presented is conflicting or disputed, the jury serves as the exclusive judge of both the credibility of witnesses and the weight to be given to particular evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2018 UT App 8 - State v. Cady

3. “'The existence of a conflict in the evidence does not render the totality of the evidence insuffi-clent. It is the role of the factfinder to examine and resolve such conflicts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2015 UT App 308 - Earhart v. Earhart