Denney v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““You are instructed that evidence has been offered tending to show flight by the defendant shortly after the commission of the crime alleged against them in the information. If you find from the evidence that the defendant did at some time flee from the place of the commission of such alleged crime, and that such flight was induced by their apprehension of being charged with a public offense by reason thereof, this is a circumstance to be considered by you, in connection with all other evidence, to aid you in determining the question of their guilt or innocence.””

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

2. ““Statements of the prosecuting attorney, in argument to the jury, ‘why couldn’t they contradict the state’s testimony, but not one place do they do that,’ and ‘I say again there is no evidence offered to contradict the state’s evidence in this case’ held not a comment upon the failure of the defendant to testify as a witness in his own behalf * * ””

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