Ware v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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27 state decisions

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

1. “In a murder case, this rule requires the State to prove that the deceased came to his death at the hands of another person. Ferrell v. State, 325 Ark. 455 , 929 S.W.2d 697 [1996], This court has recognized, however, that there is no requirement that medical testimony be provided regarding the cause of death. Sims v. State, 258 Ark. 940 , 530 S.W.2d 182 (1975); Glover v. State, 211 Ark. 1002 , 204 S.W.2d 373 (1947). Both elements, the fact of death and the cause of death, may be shown by strong and unequivocal circumstantial evidence such as to leave no ground for reasonable doubt; thus, where there is some proof of the corpus delicti, its weight and sufficiency is properly left to the jury. Sims, 258 Ark. 940 , 530 S.W.2d 182 (citing Edmonds v. State, 34 Ark. 720 (1879)). See also Derring v. State, 273 Ark. 347 , 619 S.W.2d 644 (1981).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bramlett v. Hobbs