Bass v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 65 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While willful killing with a deadly weapon is not a sufficient basis for an inference of premeditation and deliberation, it is seldom that the evidence in a ease of homicide is restricted to no more than these bare facts and it is commonly the case that the jurors have before them other circumstances from which they may infer the existence or the want of mental elements of premeditation and deliberation.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Houston v. Dutton · 2 Tenn. Crim. App. 192 - Smith v. State

2. ““(4) It does not affirmatively appear, however, that the defendant was prejudiced by the short time intervening between his indictment and trial. No evidence was introduced upon his motion for a new trial indicating how he suffered from the action of the court in failing to give him more time for the preparation of his defense. The second assignment of error must be overruled.””

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

3. ““If the pictures accurately showed the environment as it existed at a time near enough to the homicide to warrant an inference that such condition had existed then, they should not, if material, be excluded from evidence upon the possibility that they might unduly excite the emotions of the jury. Hughes v. State, 126 Tenn. 40, 69 , 148 S.W. 543 , Ann.Cas. 1913D, 1262.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 1 Tenn. Crim. App. 223 - Palmer v. State