Swoaks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
December 1999
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Harris v. State · Copeland v. State · Owensby v. State
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.
“In view of the fact jurors not totally familiar with the law might have been persuaded that if appellant were only an accomplice he could not be convicted as a principal, it was entirely proper for the trial court to give the instruction that an accomplice could be charged as a principal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ben-Yisrayl v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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