McAdams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““From a careful examination of the testimony brought up by the record, we find none to support this instruction. We think the testimony so clearly opposed to the instruction, that it seems that the jury could not have drawn an inference of accident from it, and the only effect the instruction could have had, would have been to mislead the jury. This court held, in the case of Saddler v. Saddler, 16 Ark. 628 : ‘That it is error in the court to give an instruction not warranted by the testimony, and which may mislead the jury.’ See Worthington v. Card [Curd], 15 Ark. 492 [491].””

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

2. ““The jury shall, in all cases of murder, on conviction of the accused, find by their verdict whether he be guilty of murder in the first or second degree; but if the accused confess his guilt, the court shall impanel a jury and examine testimony, and the degree of crime shall be found by such jury.””

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

3. ““ ‘That, if the jury believe from the evidence, that the killing was accidental, and without any willful and malicious intent, they must acquit the prisoner.’ ””

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