State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘I want you to look at the evidence, remember all the testimony that you heard, and go back to that definition of reasonable doubt that, unfortunately, no one can say in precise words what it is. “ ‘You just have to intuitively know when you see it.’ ””

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

2. “Essentially, the prosecutor was saying that, although reasonable doubt does not have a precise definition, jurors will instinctively know it when they see it.”

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

3. “' " '[N]o definition or explanation can make any clearer what is meant by the phrase 'reasonable doubt' than that which is imparted by the words themselves.”

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