Klein 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. “With regard to the offenses of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Young Child, Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child, Sexual Assault of a Child and Indecency with a Child by Contact or Exposure, you are charged as a part of the law in this case that the [Sjtate is not required to prove the exact dates alleged in the indictment but may prove the offenses, if any, to have been committed at any time prior to the presentment of the indictment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Martin v. State

2. “This 'familiar standard gives full play to the responsibility of the trier of fact fairly to resolve conflicts in the testimony, to weigh the evidence, and to draw reasonable inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts.'”

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

3. “`determine whether the necessary inferences are reasonable based upon the combined and cumulative force of all the evidence when viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict.'”

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