Ferrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 18 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * [T]his court has consistently held that where there is competent evidence in the record from which the jury could reasonable conclude the defendant was guilty as charged, the Court of Criminal Appeals will not interfere with the verdict even though there is a sharp conflict in the evidence and different inferences may be drawn therefrom, since it is the exclusive province of the jury to weigh the evidence and determine the facts. * * * ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schapansky v. State · Williams v. State

2. ““Where a new procedure is judicially created as adoptive herein, it will not be retroactive to serve as grounds for reversal when the Court was following a well-established procedure heretofore approved by this Court in numerous decisions, but is to be hereafter strictly complied with in accordance with this decision.””

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

3. “an incompetent juror was forced upon him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 249 N.J. Super. 253 - Catando v. Sheraton Poste Inn