State v. Crossman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

34 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * Throughout the trial defendant was seeking to establish that he was not the person who participated in the robbery. He sharply challenged the identification of him from the photographs shown to the witnesses at the police station and the personal identification of him after he was taken into custody by the police. The presence of the defendant in the courtroom and the viewing of his photograph by which the State’s witnesses identified him as a participant in the robbery made it possible for the jury to determine the accuracy or inaccuracy of their identification of him from the photograph shown them on July 29th. The identity of Allen, whom the evidence showed defendant admitted to have been present and wounded at the robbery, made their joint identities relevant and material. No error was committed in their admission.””

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

2. “Id. at 42 . In Crossman the basic offense charged and submitted was the same. Crossman held that a variance, to justify reversal, should be material and prejudicial to the rights of the accused. Id.; Rules 23.11; 29.12; §§ 545.030 and 546.080, RSMo, 1986. In determining prejudice the Crossman Court enunciated a standard that”

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

3. “unless the defendant can be said to have been prejudiced in that he would have been better able to defend had the information contained the phrase ..., he should not be entitled to relief on account of the variance.”

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