Jackson 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. “does not inform the jury of the elements of attempted murder, namely that defendant with intent to kill Allen Smet, took a substantial step to accomplish that end.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stewart v. State · Spradlin v. State

2. “"The instruction given in Santana for attempted murder was approved in the following form: (1) the defendant knowingly or intentionally (2) took a substantial step to accomplish (3) a knowing or intentional killing of another human being. This instruction advised the jury the defendant had the intention to kill another human being and took a substantial step to accomplish that result."”

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

3. “[whhile a trial judge has discretion to determine the seope of cross-examination and only clear abuse of that discretion is reversible, it is well established that a Sixth Amendment issue is raised when the trial court prohibits defense counsel from cross-examining altogether a crucial witness for the State on an area concerning his credibility.”

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