State v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"`... whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.' ( Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 at 319 , 99 S.Ct. 2781 at 2789 , 61 L.Ed.2d 560 at 573 [1979], which is the federal or constitutional standard); and, since this is a circumstantial evidence case, whether, assuming every fact to be proved that the evidence tends to prove, every reasonable hypothesis of innocence is excluded (LSA-R.S. 15:438, the state or statutory standard)." State v. Parker, 425 So.2d 683 at 694 (La., 1983).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Whittaker · 456 So. 2d 1383 - State v. Scott

2. “(2) When the offender is engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of aggravated rape, aggravated arson, aggravated burglary, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated escape, armed robbery, or simple robbery, even though he has no intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Whittaker

3. “`the court [can] ... declare a belief that [the error] was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 473 So. 2d 886 - State v. Reynolds