State v. McCollum’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Court instructs the jury that if you believe and find from the evidence in this case, beyond a reasonable doubt, that-at the County of Jackson and State of Missouri, on the 3rd day of November, 1967, the defendant herein, CHARLES WILLIAM WHITE, did then and there feloniously and burglariously break into and enter the- storeroom of Greenlease Cadillac, a corporation, located at 2921 Gillham Road, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, by bursting and breaking the rear office window of said storeroom, if you find he did break and enter the said storeroom, and if you further believe and find from the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant fe-loniously and intentionally did steal property of any value, the property of Green-lease Cadillac, without the consent of the said Greenlease Cadillac, with intent to permanently deprive the said Greenlease Cadillac, of said property, with felonious intent to convert the same to his own use without any honest claim to said property, if such be your finding, then you will find the defendant guilty of Stealing and so find in your verdict. * * * ””

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

2. ““The Court instructs the jury that if you believe and find from the evidence that the defendant made any voluntary statement or statements in relation to the offense charged, after such offense is alleged to have been committed, you must consider such statement or statements, if any, all together and in the light of the circumstances under which you may believe they were made, (if you believe they were made). “If you believe the statement or statements of the defendant, proved by the State, were not voluntary, then you should disregard the statement or statements entirely.””

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