State v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The defendant, by his counsel, now asks and urges that this court shall set aside the judgment of the court below, and grant him a new trial; and if the new trial cannot be granted, he still urges that we shall set aside the judgment of the court below, so as to place the defendant back in the same situation and condition in which he was prior to the rendering of such judgment, and subsequent to the rendering of the verdict; and he urges this upon the ground, among others, that the court below faded to inform him of the verdict of the jury, and to ask him whether he had any legal cause to show why judgment should not be pronounced against him. It is true that the record fails to show that this was done. The record shows that the defendant excepted to the sentence, on the ground that the verdict was not sufficient to sustain such a sentence; but it does not in any other manner show that the defendant was informed as to what the verdict was, or that he had any opportunity extended to him to show cause why judgment should not be pronounced against him. We have, with great doubts and many misgivings, come to the conclusion to grant this last request of the defendant. . . . “We wish to confine this decision within the particular facts and circumstances of this case. Therefore, such decision will be as follows: “Where a defendant is charged on information with committing murder in the first degree, and ‘the jury find the defendant guilty in manner and form as charged in the inform”

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