State v. May’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “I’m going to ask you to resume your deliberations for another half an hour. I’m not going to stretch it any farther past that, but I’m going to ask you to give it your best shot. And it’s your choice, not mine, but I’m not going to hot bond you, and we’re not going to make you to stay until 5 o’clock, but I’m going to ask you to go back and try again, remembering the instructions I gave you. And at 3:30 I’m going to ask you to come out, unless you’ve hit, hit the button and reached the decision prior to that. And that’s your choice. I mean, I can’t tell you what to do. I appreciate your note letting me know, but I’m going to ask you, since the people have so much invested in this, and we don’t want to have to redo it again, but anyway, if we have to we will. That’s not my call either. That doesn’t belong to me. I’ll ask you just to give us another half hour an hour [sic] and continue to deliberate with a view towards reaching an agreement if it can be done without violence to your individual judgment. As I said earlier, none of you should change your opinion if you, you know, if you feel like that’s what your conscience dictates, you stick by it. So with that, I’m going to ask you to go back and continue.”

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