State v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““‘But..you are instructed that the evidence.need-not.demonstrate the guilt of the defendant.-beyond the possibility of. his. im nocence; if the circumstances proved produce a-moral conviction to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt, they need not-be absolutely incompatible, on any reasonable hypothesis, with the innocence of the accused. While such evidence to be sufficient, must create more than a suspicion of guilt, a mere possibility of innocence will not prevent a conviction where the conclusion or inference of guilt is logical. A theory of innocence must be rational and must find its support in facts. You are not required to adopt an unreasonable the- ! ory or one not fairly founded on evidence. 'You are not required to give to circumstances a strained or artificial construction in determining whether they are consistent with innocence/ ””

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