Carroll v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The Court instructs the jury for the State of Mississippi that you do not have to know that the defendant is guilty before you can convict him. It is only necessary that you should believe from the evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, and to the exclusion of very other reasonable hypothesis, that he is guilty, and if you do so believe from all of the evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, and to the exclusion of every other reasonable hypothesis, that the defendant is guilty, then it is your sworn duty to so find."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 235 So. 2d 451 - McGill v. State · 222 So. 2d 116 - Walker v. State

2. ““While the instruction contains a correct statement of an abstract principle of law, we think that it falls within that class of instructions which would be better not to give but which, in themselves, do not constitute reversible error. * * *” (Id. at 872).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 235 So. 2d 451 - McGill v. State · 222 So. 2d 116 - Walker v. State