State v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “overstates the holdings in these cases. In Arnold, Martin, and Schrock [,] we held that the State did not produce substantial circumstantial evidence of the defendant’s guilt and noted that the State presented no evidence that the defendant was at the scene. We reject any interpretation that these cases altered or increased the sufficiency of evidence standard a trial court is to apply in a case based on circumstantial evidence. In this case, unlike Arnold, Martin, and Schrock , the State offered substantial circumstantial evidence of Frazier’s guilt.”

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

2. “Circumstantial evidence ... gains its strength from its combination with other evidence, and all the circumstantial evidence presented in a case must be considered together to determine whether it is sufficient to submit to the jury.”

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

3. “[W]hen the State relies exclusively on circumstantial evidence and a motion for a directed verdict is made, the trial [court] is concerned with the existence or non-existence of evidence, not with its weight.”

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