Barham v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The court should not allow the County Attorney to go into detail concerning the crime for which the defendant had been formerly convicted, as that is a collateral matter, not relevant to the crime charged...'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. State

2. ““In the instant case the trial court failed to instruct the jury that the former convictions should not be considered in determining the guilt or innocence of the defendant but just as to his credibility.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McVey v. State