State v. Holbrook’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * There are several possible explanations, logical and otherwise, for the jury’s finding defendant guilty only of the charge of possession with intent to sell. The jury in the exercise of its power of lenity could have believed all of Ms. Johnson’s testimony and yet have convicted defendant of only the possession charge. The fact that the jury requested additional instructions on sale indicates that possibly the jury was confused over the meaning of sale and for that reason acquitted defendant of that charge. Because of these possibilities, we cannot accept defendant’s contention that the jury’s verdict means it rejected Ms. Johnson’s testimony.””

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