State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “So I charge you, Ladies and Gentlemen, that if you find from the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt, the burden being on the State to so satisfy you, that the defendant, Robert Muse, at the time and place in question, that is, subsequent to May 3, 1969 and before May 21, 1969, did receive certain goods, which had been stolen by some person other than the defendant, and that the goods so stolen and so received by the defendant, were of a value in excess of $200, and that at the time he received the goods the defend ant knew that they had been theretofore feloniously stolen, and that the property was received by the defendant with a felonious intent, that is, the intent to deprive the owner of its property permanently and to convert it to the use of the person so receiving the same, that is, the defendant, it will be your duty to render a verdict against the defendant of guilty, as charged in the bill of indictment. If you fail to so find it will be your duty to give a verdict of not guilty, or if upon a fair and impartial consideration of all the evidence and circumstances in the case you have a reasonable doubt as to his guilt, it will be your duty to give him the benefit of such doubt and acquit him. If under the circumstances of this case you find from the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant received stolen goods, knowing them to be stolen, as the court has explained these terms to you, and the goods in question were of a value of $200 or less, the”

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