State v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The court may only reverse a jury verdict when the evidence is sufficiently inconclusive or inherently improbable such that reasonable minds must have entertained a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime for which he or she was convicted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Baer

2. “whether filing a motion to arrest judgment would have been futile, we evaluate whether the evidence presented at trial was so questionable that such a motion would have caused the trial court to reverse the jury verdict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Baer

3. “As we conduct [this] evaluation, we review the evidence and all reasonable inferences that may fairly be drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the jury verdict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Baer