Granger v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

75 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]t is a defense to prosecution that the actor through mistake formed a reasonable belief about a matter of fact if his mistaken belief negated the kind of culpability required for the commission of the offense.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Juan Jose Reyes v. State · Ingram v. State

2. “A defendant is entitled to an instruction on [a defensive issue] if the issue is raised by the evidence, whether that evidence is strong or weak, unimpeached or contradicted, and regardless of what the trial court may think about the credibility of the defense.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Trammell v. State · Cocke v. State

3. “that the jury, not the judge, will decide the relative credibility of the evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cocke v. State · McFadden v. State