Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

529 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 530 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “to fairly resolve conflicts in testimony, to weigh the evidence, and to draw reasonable inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Reed v. State · Briscoe v. State

2. “[A] reviewing court is required to defer to the jury's credibility and weight determinations because the jury is the sole judge of the witnesses' credibility and the weight to be given their testimony.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Winfrey, Megan AKA Megan Winfrey Hammond · Winfrey v. State

3. “any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Cooper v. State · Braughton, Christopher Ernest