People v. Borgne’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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. “only referred to defendant's silence under the mistaken belie[f] that defendant had raised the subject in his fleeting mention of having tried to tell his exculpatory story while being escorted to the police car. The prosecutor also referred to defendant's silence in closing argument, but it, again, was only an attempt to impeach defendant's exculpatory story.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Borgne

2. “This use of silence did not obviate the prosecutor's need to independently prove that defendant committed the crime. And the prosecutor here presented compelling, largely consistent, untainted evidence to prove this defendant's guilt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Borgne

3. “in the direction that the assailant fled from the crime scene.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Borgne