Roberts v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Certainly, '[i]t is misconduct for a prosecutor to request a jury to convict a defendant for any reason other than his guilt. Maldonado, supra, 265 Ind. at 500 , 855 N.E.2d at 849. Those statements disapproved by the Supreme Court, however, invite the jury to consider factors other than guilt. See, eg., Maldonado, supra, (statement implying that convietion of defendant would be community service); Warner v. State, (1976) 265 Ind. 262 , 854 N.E.2d 178 (statement implying conviction of defendant would avert tyranny); Clark v. State, (1976) 264 Ind. 524 , 348 N.E.2d 27 , cert. denied, 489 U.S. 1050 , 99 S.Ct. 781 , 58 LEd.2d 711 (statement that jury should disregard defense presented because it would set a 'precedent' which 'would be the end of criminal conviections')."”

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