State v. Couture’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

49 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A jury is presumed to have followed die trial court’s instructions. [Citation omitted.] A criminal juiy’s sole function is to set aside the personal prejudices of its individual members, to weigh dispassionately die evidence set before it, and, on die basis of the trial court’s instructions, to determine whether the state has proved die defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. [Citations omitted.] That a jury returns a verdict of guilty in a given case, therefore, has nothing to do with die ‘possible predispositions’ of a juror, and everything to do widi the particular factual and legal contours of the case as it was presented to the jury. Standing alone, the fact that a jury returns a guilty verdict is not probative of the personal views of the individual jurors.” 218 Conn, at 319.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 27 Kan. App. 2d 403 - Butler Ex Rel. Commerce Bank, N.A. v. HCA Health Services of Kansas, Inc.

2. “The fourteenth amendment has long been held to forbid unequal treatment at the venire stage of jury selection”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 6809 - State v. Gibbs, No. Cr-93-89935 (Jun. 17, 1998)