Carr v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 7 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. ““We are of the opinion that when the trial court instructed the jury that ‘If you assess under the indeterminate sentence law, the Pardon and Parole Board is required to review the defendant’s case at the end of the minimum term, and it will be for them to determine whether he serve longer than the minimum term you fix,’ the court went beyond its duty and authority to fully instruct the jury as to the law as applied to the evidence in the case and committed error prejudicial to the defendant. That portion of the instruction complained of related to a condition subsequent to the conviction and sentence and was not germane to the question involved in the trial of the defendant as to the guilt or innocence, but provides for conditions subsequent to conviction and after the party has been incarcerated in our penitentiary or reformatory.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Suits v. State · Larry G. Linebarger v. State of Oklahoma and Ray H. Page, Warden

2. ““We reiterate that it is error for trial courts to instruct the jury as to matters which are outside the record and not germane to the issues of the case and relate only to conditions subsequent to conviction and after the party has been incarcerated in our penitentiary or reformatory.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Suits v. State · Wadkins v. State