Ramsey v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We have repeatedly held that if a defendant feels that additional instructions should be given, it is his duty to reduce instructions to writing and submit them to the trial judge and request that they be given. In absence of such request, a conviction will not be reversed unless this court is of the opinion that failure to give an instruction has deprived defendant of a substantial right.”

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

2. ““. . . Inasmuch as we have found the first three assignments of error to be without merit, it follows that the fourth assignment is similarly without merit.””

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