Stanbury v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

42 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “seriously affected the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of the [trial],”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. STROUD v. the STATE. · Robinson v. State

2. “Indeed, under all the circumstances of this case, the trial court adversely affected [Stroud's] 'substantial rights' by failing to provide the required [circumstantial evidence] charge because the charges as given failed to provide the jury with the proper guidelines for determining [Stroud's] guilt or innocence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. STROUD v. the STATE.

3. “The third prong of the ... plain error test requires that the error must have affected the appellant's substantial rights, which in the ordinary case means he must demonstrate that it affected the outcome of the trial court proceedings.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 343 Ga. App. 810 - ROSS v. the STATE.