State v. Yarrington’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[T]he general rule is that photographs that accurately portray what they purport to show are admissible in evidence. State v. Murdock, 236 Kan. 146, 152 , 689 P.2d 814 (1984). In State v. Pearson, 234 Kan. 906 , the court stated: “ ‘The law is well settled in this state that in a crime of violence which results in death, photographs which serve to illustrate the nature and extent of the wounds inflicted are admissible when they corroborate the testimony of witnesses or are relevant to the testimony of a pathologist as to the cause of death, even though they may appear gruesome.’ p. 918."”

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

2. ““In a first-degree murder prosecution, premeditation may be established by circumstantial evidence, and may be inferred from the established circumstances of the case provided the inference is reasonable.” “The term corpus delicti means the body of the offense — the substance of the crime. As applied in homicide cases it has at least two component elements: (1) the fact of death, and (2) the criminal agency of another person as the cause thereof.” “The corpus delicti of a crime may be proved in whole or in part by direct testimony or by indirect testimony and circumstantial evidence.””

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