Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 72 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"[TJhere must be a practical method of choosing prospective jurors. The use of lists, whether they be property taxpayers or registered voters, so long as they represent a reasonable cross section of the people in the county, cannot be said to violate the rights of the accused, in the absence of a showing that such use is made in a deliberate attempt to exclude certain groups from jury selection."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beck v. State · 180 Ind. App. 472 - Clark v. State

2. ““When one intends to assault a certain person with a deadly weapon and by mistake or inadvertence assaults another person with such weapon, in the eyes of the law his intent is transferred from the person to whom it was directed to the person actually assaulted; and a per-person committing such an act is deemed guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, in like effect as if he had originally intended to attack the person thus assaulted through mistake or inadvertence.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Napier v. State · Gilreath v. State

3. ““* * * Such motion is in the nature of a demurrer to the evidence. It admits all reasonable inferences that can be drawn from the evidence and should not be granted if there is enough evidence to submit the facts to the jury for their determination. * * *””

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