Nash v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The court instructs the jury for the defendant that each and every material averment as to the falsity of defendant’s testimony at former trial must be proven by the testimony of two witnesses, or by one witness and corroborating evidence; beyond all reasonable doubt to every man of this jury.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kea v. State · Hale v. State

2. “The jurors empaneled to try the perjury case were the sole judges of the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given to the testimony of each witness. It was important that the jurors be correctly informed as to the “quantity” of proof required to authorize a conviction for perjury; and the State, somewhere in its own charges, should have asked that the jury be informed that, before they could convict, it must be shown to their satisfaction by the testimony of two witnesses or the testimony of one witness and corroborating circumstances that the appellant’s allegedly perjured testimony ... was false.”

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

3. “In the case at bar, on the evidence, the verdict of the jury was correct; and, although the jury should have been advised as to the quantum of evidence required in a perjury case, it is manifest that the want of it in this case did not harm this appellant, for the reason that the evidence measures up to the requirement of the rule as to the quantum thereof neces sary to sustain a conviction. (Emphasis added).”

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