Grey v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In a prosecution for an offense with lesser included offenses, the jury may find the defendant not guilty of the greater offense, but guilty of any lesser included offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Niles v. State

2. “has no discretion to deny " a requested instruction and situations in which "nothing precludes a trial court from submitting an instruction”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Smith, Joseph Anthony

3. “In fact, the State can abandon an element of the charged offense without prior notice and proceed to prosecute a lesser-included offense.”

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