State v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““You are instructed that flight, concealment, fabrication of evidence or the attempt to fabricate evidence or the giving of false information may be taken into account upon the question of the consciousness of guilt of the defendant. Therefore, if you find from the evidence that a defendant soon after the commission of an offense alleged in the Information fled to avoid arrest and trial, fabricated evidence in his behalf, sought to create a false alibi, or gave false information in his behalf, you may take such facts and circumstances into consideration in determining his guilt or innocence. Flight, concealment, fabrication, use of a false name and fabrication of evidence are admissible as circumstances which you may consider in determining the probabilities of the guilt or innocence of the defendant. The weight of such circumstances is a matter for the jury to determine in connection with the other facts and circumstances in the case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McCorgary

2. ““It is always improper to instruct a jury upon matters which are not in issue, .... But this error of the court does not require a reversal unless it can be said that it was prejudicial to the rights of the defendant.” State v. Floyd, 210 Kan. 383, 388 , 502 P.2d 744 (1972), citing State v. Thompson, 119 Kan. 743 , 241 P. 110 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Wilson