Alexander v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the State must have proven beyond a reasonable doubt each of the following elements: § (1) That the defendant (2) knowingly and intentionally (3) engaged in conduct as described in the Information and that such conduct was a substantial step toward the commission of the crime of Burglary.”

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

2. “condemned an instruction such as this because it purported to define the elements of an attempted felony charge and failed to include, as an element, the accompaniment of the step taken with the intent to commit the specific felony.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Douglas v. State

3. “When all instructions are taken as a whole, there can be no doubt the jury was fully informed that in order to be guilty of attempted burglary the appellant must have had specific intent to commit the burglary.”

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