State v. MacNeill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A]n issue is inadequately briefed when the overall analysis of the issue is so lacking as to shift the burden of research and argument to the reviewing court.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Calvert · State v. Jack

2. “[T]he idea that circumstantial evidence is necessarily less convincing and of less value than direct evidence is a misstatement of the law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Klenz · 2017 UT App 29 - C.A. v. State (In Re State Ex Rel. J.A.)

3. “We will reverse a guilty verdict only when the evidence ... is sufficiently inconclusive or inherently improbable that reasonable minds must have entertained a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime of which he or she was convicted.”

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