Buchanan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““By simple logic it must be deduced that if murder perpetrated in the commission of a robbery and other enumerated kinds of murder are murder in the first degree and all other kinds of murder are murder in the second degree, then the jury’s verdict of murder in the perpetration of a robbery is a verdict of murder in the first degree.””

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

2. ““We, the jury, find the defendants, Fred Lee Thomas Briggs and Arbee Coleman guilty of murder in the perpetration of a robbery as charged in the first count of the indictment and fix their punishment at death by electrocution.””

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