Limp v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The State introduced no evidence in rebuttal on the question of appellant’s sanity, and for this reason appellant insists that the verdict was contrary to law. The substance of the argument is that as appellant offered evidence tending to prove appellant’s unsoundness of mind, the jury was bound to acquit, in the absence of direct proof to the contrary. Unquestionably the sanity of the defendant must appear beyond a reasonable doubt, and, when the presumption of sanity that attends every one has been overthrown or impaired, the State must reestablish it by competent proof, or the defendant should be acquitted. But it is the province of the jury, under proper instructions, to determine when the condition of sanity has been made doubtful, and when the doubt has been removed. “ ‘All testimony is not proof. That only is proof which convinces. . . . So . . . the jury, being the sole judges of the weight of the evidence, found the evidence offered by appellant unworthy of belief, they had a right to disregard it.’ ” See also: Wright v. Peabody Coal Co. (1948), 225 Ind. 679, 687 , 77 N. E. 2d 116 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Berry v. State · Young v. State

2. “. . to sustain the appellant’s contention this court would be compelled to hold as a matter of law that appellant’s testimony herein, and what he told the experts upon which they based their opinions, must be taken by the jury as true. It was within the province of the jury to determine what evidence they would believe.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Berry v. State