Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “to avoid discovery of evidence beneficial to the defense.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harmon v. State · State v. Koehler

2. “You are instructed that the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant possessed a usable quantity of a narcotic drug in order to find, him guilty. Possession of an unusable trace or residual debris is not enough in and of itself to warrant a conviction. However, the possession of a residual debris can be treated as circumstantial evidence of possession' of a usable quantity of a narcotic drug. If you do not find that the defendant was in possession of a usable quantity of a narcotic drug, it is your duty to find him not guilty. 3. That the substance possessed by the defendant .was in fact an opium derivative.”

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

3. “The Court of Claims, in a conscientious effort to undo an injustice, elevated to a constitutional level what it deemed to be an infraction of the Jencks Act and made a denial of discovery which ‘seriously impeded his right to a fair trial’ a violation ‘of the Due Process Clause of the Constitution.’ . But apart from trials conducted in violation of express constitutional mandates, a constitutionally unfair trial takes place only where the barriers and safeguards are so relaxed or forgotten . that the proceeding is more a spectacle ... or trial by ordeal . than a disciplined contest. 26”

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