State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 41 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[e]ven if we have all of this evidence and, you know, eleven other people in that room says, you know, yes, the death penalty on that, you know, I look at it I'm the last vote, hypothetical situation, would I be able to say, you know, put my vote in and say yes. To me it's like playing God in some cases. I don't know. I've never been in that position. I don't know what I would do[,]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Bell v. Ozmint

2. “In Atkins, this Court held a capital defendant... may request that the jury be charged regarding parole eligibility. There is no requirement this charge be given absent a request and it is the defendant's burden to show a request was made.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bell v. Ozmint

3. “claim[ed] that since the record contain [ed] no waiver of his `right' to have parole eligibility charged under State v. Atkins, 293 S.C. 294, 360 S.E.2d 302 (1987), the trial judge erred in failing to give the charge.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bell v. Ozmint