Hall 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. ““In Jones v. State, 200 Tenn. 429 , 292 S.W.2d 713 , the Court rejected an insistence identical in principle to that advanced by the defendant in this case, that he could not be convicted of an attempt to commit a felony upon proof showing commission of third degree burglary. In Jones , the Court held that conviction of an attempt to commit a felony is sustainable where the proof shows that the charged act was completed. The Court said: ‘If there are facts to substantiate any of these lesser degrees and the jury so finds and this is approved by the trial judge then it is not error for the jury to find a lesser offense even though the final act was committed.’ “In the case before us, the State’s proof, obviously accepted by the jury, clearly warranted'a finding that the defendant was guilty of third degree burglary. The defendant and his co-defendant were practically caught red-handed. Under the holding in Jones, supra, the jury was also warranted in finding the defendant guilty of the lesser included offense of attempt to commit a felony.” Hall v. State, Tenn.Cr.App., 503 S.W.2d 210 .”

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