Helton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is also insisted that the lower court was in error in that he permitted the state to cross-examine the defendant extensively about his domestic affairs and his relations with his wife. Counsel for the defendant were undertaking to show before the jury the defendant as a faithful husband and father and no doubt for the purpose of engendering sympathy for him from that body. This, being true, we think the state was privileged to cross-examine him with reference to these relations and to show that he had been arrested for nonsupport of his wife and children.””

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

2. ““In our effort to see that the rights of persons accused of crime are protected, we should not overlook the fact that the people also have interests that should he safeguarded. Both the accused and the people have a right to have the case of the accused tried by an impartial jury.””

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

3. ““The general modern rule is that the court may discharge a juror without working an acquittal of the defendant in any case, where the ends of justice, under the circumstances, would otherwise be defeated.””

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