Jackson v. State’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. “"The law is well-settled that intoxication short of mania or such an impairment of the will or mind as to make a person confessing unconscious of the meaning of his words, will not render a confession inadmissible. The existence of intoxication which would effect the voluntariness of a confession is primarily a question of fact which is first addressed to the trial judge to determine the admissibility and later to the jury for whatever consideration it may deem appropriate."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mitchell v. State · 472 So. 2d 700 - Baker v. State

2. “testimony of an unwilling victim of a crime of this nature is sufficient to make out the corpus delicti and sustain the conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 461 So. 2d 899 - Ballard v. State