Briggs v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The first proposition contends that the verdict is not sustained by sufficient evidence and is based entirely upon circumstantial evidence. The evidence revealed that the defendants were arrested in the immediate vicinity of an attempted burglary within minutes after the burglar alarm was set off. The defendants’ explanation of their presence, that they were in the alley drinking wine, was not believed by the jury. In Wing v. State, Okl.Cr., 280 P.2d 740 , we stated: “ We have carefully read the entire record and find that though defendant’s conviction came about by circumstantial evidence, that the conviction rests on evidence of circumstances from which a reasonable and logical inference of defendant’s guilt clearly arises and which excludes any reasonable hypothesis except guilt, and though the evidence is conflicting, under such circumstances, the verdict of conviction will not on appeal be disturbed on the ground of insufficiency of evidence.’ ””

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