State v. Mount’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Defense doesn’t attack the allegations [of first-degree robbery and first-degree burglary] except to say [he] was not the person [who] did it. So it’s ... an all or nothing proposition here.... The same goes for ... burglary in the second degree. Again, as this case has shaped up, the defendant either did what the State said or didn’t do what the State said.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. McPhaul · State v. Jeffries

2. “We have never suggested, however, that a defendant’s reliance on an alibi defense lessens the State’s burden of proving each and every element of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt. As we said in Morgan, one firmly grounded general principle of our jurisprudence is that by pleading not guilty, a defendant places all the elements of the charge in issue. Notwithstanding Mount’s alibi defense, the State was required to prove all elements of the crimes beyond a reasonable doubt, including those elements of the greater offenses which were dissimilar from the elements of the lesser offenses.”

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

3. “If a defendant indicted for a public offense has not waived his right to a speedy trial he must be brought to trial within ninety days after indictment is found or the court must order the indictment to be dismissed unless good cause to the contrary be shown.”

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