State v. Ruple’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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. “"If it is determined that appellace courts in Louisiana should have jurisdiction to review the sufficiency of evidence (facts) in criminal cases for the proper administration of justice, a constitutional amendment should be submitted to the people to achieve that goal. The meaning and effect of the above constitutional provisions should not be changed jurisprudentially by inference, but only when there is a definitive judgment from the United States Supreme Court declaring that the Louisiana Constitutional scheme for the appellate review of criminal matters fails to meet federal constitutional due process muster. If federal courts wish to review the sufficiency of the evidence (facts) of all criminal convictions in state courts, that is their prerogative."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gatson · 430 So. 2d 1294 - State v. Oliney

2. “that state of mind which exists when the circumstances indicate that the offender actively desired the prescribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hicks · 434 So. 2d 1110 - State v. Kohler

3. “In criminal matters, its appellate jurisdiction extends only to questions of law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gatson · 461 So. 2d 658 - State in Interest of Cox