Walters v. State’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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * [I]f counsel wishes to preserve in the record alleged errors committed during the closing argument of the State, * * *, it should be called to the attention of the court by timely objection, together with a request that the jury be instructed to disregard the improper statement * * *. In the event counsel for the defendant considers the remarks so fundamentally prejudicial that the court cannot, by instructions to the jury, correct such error, counsel for defendants should move for a mistrial and preserve this in his Motion for a New Trial.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State · Hill v. State

2. “In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the county in which the crime shall have been committed....”

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