State v. Braxton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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. ““In a jury trial the court may direct a verdict of not guilty of one or more of the offenses charged, on its own motion or on that of a defendant, after the close of the state’s evidence or of all the evidence, if the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction. “In a trial by the judge alone the court shall enter a judgment of acquittal on one or more of the offenses charged, on its own motion or on that of a de fendant, after the close of the state’s ■evidence or of all the evidence, if the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction. “If the court denies a defendant’s motion for a directed verdict or judgment of acquittal at the close of the state’s ■ case, the defendant may offer his evidence in defense.” 2 (Emphasis ours.)”

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

2. ““We have him coming into a state of immediate and unexplained — other than that he robbed the old man — prosperity, from a few dollars to several hundred dollars . . .” “The law says that a person who is in the unexplained possession of property recently stolen in a robbery is presumed to have committed the robbery. The law goes further, and consistent along with those two presumptions, and it is this. A party who is found in the unexplained possession . . .””

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