White v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

74 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although [Harris] does not dispute that the evidence is legally sufficient to sustain his convictions, we nevertheless review the record and independently assess the legal sufficiency of the evidence. In doing so, we apply the familiar standard of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 ( 99 SCt 2781 , 61 LE2d 560) (1979), asking whether any rational trier of fact could find beyond a reasonable doubt from the evidence adduced at trial that [Harris] is guilty of the crimes of which he was convicted. See 443 U. S. at 319 (III) (B).”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. EVANS v. the STATE. · Dorsey v. State

2. “-require the trial judge to exercise a broad discretion to sit as a”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. KING v. the STATE. · Strapp v. State

3. “[although the discretion of a trial judge to award a new trial on the general grounds is not boundless — it is, after all, a discretion that “should be exercised with caution and invoked only in exceptional cases in which the evidence preponderates heavily against the verdict,” Alvelo v. State, 288 Ga. 437, 438 (1) ( 704 SE2d 787 ) (2011) — it nevertheless is, generally speaking, a substantial discretion. See State v. Harris, 292 Ga. 92, 94 ( 734 SE2d 357 ) (2012).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. KING v. the STATE. · Strapp v. State