State v. Randle’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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We review a [circuit] court's refusal of a proposed instruction under an abuse of discretion standard. The trial court has broad discretion in instructing the jury. Jury instructions are satisfactory when, considered as a whole, they properly state the applicable law and inform the jury. Error in declining to apply a proposed instruction is reversible only if it is prejudicial, and the defendant has the burden of proving any prejudice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Michael Bert Swan

2. “An erroneous instruction is prejudicial if in all probability it produced some effect upon the verdict and is harmful to the substantial rights of the party assigning it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Michael Bert Swan

3. “[W]hen a defendant's theory is supported by law and has some foundation in evidence, however tenuous, the defendant has a right to present it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Michael Bert Swan