State v. Reddick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An indictment is sufficient if the offense is stated with [enough] certainty and particularity to enable the court to know what judgment to pronounce, and the defendant to know what he is called upon to answer and whether he may plead an acquittal or conviction thereon. The true test of the sufficiency of an indictment is not whether it could be made more definite and certain, but whether it contains the necessary elements of the offense intended to be charged and sufficiently apprises the defendant of what he must be prepared to meet.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Tumbleston · State v. Barnett

2. “An indictment passes legal muster if it `charges the crime substantially in the language of the ... statute prohibiting the crime or so plainly that the nature of the offense charged may be easily understood....'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Guthrie · State v. Barnett

3. “to determine whether the appellants were on notice and apprised of the charges against them). The caption of the indictment charged Barnett with violation of S.C.Code Ann. § 16-13-30(B)(1). The caption read that Barnett was charged with”

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