– State v. Harris –’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a criminal defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence used to support a conviction, an appellate court looks at all the evidence 'in a light most favorable to the State to determine whether a rational factfinder could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.' A reviewing court 'generally will”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Moeller · State v. Hatfield

2. “No party may assign as error the . . . failure to give an instruction . . . unless the party objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict . . . unless . . . the failure to give an instruction is clearly erroneous.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Douglas · State v. Gonzalez

3. “'whether the defendant's actions could have given rise to multiple counts of the charged crime or whether the alleged conduct was unitary.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Garcia-Martinez