Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . .1 tell you each and every one of you you are the citizens who pay me to do a job. I will tell you this, there is not one of you, not one of you on that Jury that can pay me enough money or can pay the police department enough money to try to convict an innocent man and that is what we are here about, and that is what he is insinuating. You don’t do that, my job is not that important to me. I can go over there and defend them and make more money — * * * “So let me make this clear to each and every one of you, it is important, you don’t pay me enough money to come here and convict an innocent man.””

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

2. ““So let me make this clear to each and every one of you, it is important, you don’t pay me enough money to come here and convict an innocent man.””

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