State v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

45 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ . . . . Before we ask you any questions, you must understand your rights. You have the right to remain silent; anything you say can be used against you in court; you have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before we ask you any questions and to have him present with you during any questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you before any questions; but if you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer you will still have a right to stop answering any time until you talk to a lawyer.” Detective Frye testified: “He told me that he wished to give me a statement in full as to what happened but, at the time, I did not know what county the crime had occurred in and thought it had happened in Harnett County. I told him to hold the information for the Harnett County officers. “ .... I told him that a girl had been kidnapped and that a man had been murdered, and that he was a suspect. He asked me Ts the boy dead?’ I told him that the boy was dead. He then asked what happened to the girl. I told him that she made it to the road and got help. He stated that he had been worried about what had taken place and didn’t want to take the rap by himself; he said that it wasn’t all his fault. “Danny stated to me that the 1962 automobile belonged to him. He said that he had bought it in Connecticut but didn’t have any registration for it.””

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