People v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Evidence of a defendant's possession of a weapon of the kind used in the offense with which he is charged is routinely determined by courts to be direct, relevant evidence of his commission of that offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Houston

2. “the shotgun itself was equally as direct an item of evidence of defendant's commission of the charged robbery in this case as marked bills or identifiable jewelry would be in another....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Houston