State v. Lindsey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The evidence is insufficient to support the verdict of the jury. We may conjecture the purpose of the defendant to have been to commit a rape, but, on the facts disclosed, it is conjecture only, and not an inference reasonably drawn from the evidence. The probabilities may be greater that a rape was intended, rather than robbery or murder; but mere probability of guilt of a particular crime, and that, too, springing more from instinct than from proved facts, cannot support a verdict of guilty. There is great danger of improper convictions in cases of this character, and, while the courts should not for that reason invade the province of the jury, the danger admonishes us of the necessity of standing firmly upon the right and duty of proper supervision and control over them."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 932 So. 2d 850 - Carter v. State · 470 So. 2d 653 - Clemons v. State

2. “The gravamen of the offense of an attempt to commit a crime is fixed by the statutory requirement that the defendant must do an overt act toward the commission thereof and be prevented from its consummation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 206 So. 2d 200 - Bucklew v. State

3. “was a matter of substance in the indictment, and should have been proved by the state, since the grand jury had charged that the unlawful cohabitation was a cohabitation by the parties”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 365 So. 2d 644 - Van Norman v. State