Bush v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “This Court has been liberal in interpreting the sufficiency of a verdict so as to prevent technicalities from thwarting justice, but to approve the type of verdict we find here, where the jufy recites that it finds the defendant guilty of this, or of that, or of the other, would be to throw judicial reasoning to the winds and deprive defendants of the right to be clearly and concisely advised of the exact crime of which they are found guilty.”

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

2. “Jury verdict which found defendant-guilty of “assault or battery or assault and battery with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm” was so indefinite as to require reversal of judgment of conviction.”

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