State v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

95 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The prosecution and the defense have each the right to present to the court, before the argument has begun, any written charge or charges, and request that the same be given. Except as otherwise provided herein; the judge must give every such requested charge that is wholly correct and wholly pertinent, unless the matter contained in such charge have been already given, or unless such charge require qualification, limitation or explanation.””

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

2. “It is not our intention to overrule the prior jurisprudence of this State, and particularly the various cases cited by counsel for the State, in each of which defendant was denied pre-trial inspection of written confessions of co-defendants, written statements of witnesses, or police reports in the hands of a sheriff, police department, or district attorney, and we do not overrule these cases.”

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

3. ““If the act is constitutional the defendant has no complaint, for the verdicts prescribed as being responsive to murder were given in the court’s general charge to the jury. *. * *””

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