Ray v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The trial court erred in a) refusing to accept the jury’s second degree murder verdict; 2) requiring the jury to further deliberate on all counts after it had acquitted Mr. Patterson of the greater offense of first degree murder when it found him guilty of this lesser offense; 3) accepting the subsequent first degree murder verdict; 4) overruling Mr. Patterson’s request for a mistrial; and plainly erred in 5) failing to advise the jury in writing what verdicts were supposedly inconsistent and by not submitting a new set of verdict forms for those verdicts, pursuant to MAI-CR3d 312.06, because these actions and omissions allowed and possibly coerced a first degree murder conviction, violating Mr. Patterson’s rights to due process of law and to not be placed in double jeopardy, U.S. Const., 5th and 14th Amends.; Mo. Const., Art. I, § 19, in that when the jury returned its second degree murder verdict, Mr. Patterson was acquitted of first degree murder, and since that verdict was in proper form it should have been accepted; instead, the trial court twice orally ordered the jury to continue deliberations, putting Mr. Patterson again in jeopardy for first degree murder áfter he had already been acquitted of that charge, without giving the jury the required written guidance as to the perceived problem, and resulted in the jury changing its verdict to first degree murder.””

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