State v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is a well-settled principle that as a matter of law, the prosecuting officer has the right to press upon the jury any view of the case arising out of the evidence — the Supreme Court is bound to credit jurors with common intelligence, conscientiousness, and sense of duty. To justify setting aside a verdict of a jury, approved by the trial judge, on the ground of intemperate or improper remarks made by a District Attorney, we would have to be thoroughly convinced that the jury was influenced by such remarks, and also, that the remarks contributed to the verdict found. State v. Johnson & Butler, 48 La.Ann. 87 , 19 So. 213 ; State v. Hamilton, 124 La. 132 , 49 So. 1004 , 18 Ann.Cas. 981; State v. Davis, 178 La. 203 , 151 So. 78 ; and State v. Tucker, 204 La. 463 , 15 So.2d 854 . * * *” See also State v. Dowdy, 217 La. 773, 811 , 47 So.2d 496 .”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Labat · State v. Cortez

2. “The jurisprudence of the State is well-settled to the effect that a confession must be free and voluntary in order to be admitted in evidence against the defendant in a criminal prosecution; that it is the duty of the State to prove that the confession is free and voluntary and that the admissibility of the incriminating statements or confession of the accused is a question of fact, that is, whether the confession was voluntary or not. The trial judge had to settle this question of fact within his sound discretion. * * *”

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