State v. Mick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In reality, defendant claims that he is entitled to test singly and standing alone each of the facts adduced by the classic test of consistency only with guilt. Such a procedure would destroy all but the most conclusive of the circumstantial cases. Any one of the facts viewed in the abstract might lend itself to innocent explanation. What is required, however, is for all of the facts viewed in their context being satisfactory to establish the guilt of the defendant and exclude all but a remote possibility of his innocence. These facts satisfy that test.””

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